“She would (if she could) put her arm around the girl she'd been and try to tell her Take it easy, but the girl would not have listened. The girl had no receptors for Take it easy. And besides, "Hey… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Forget career, forget the future, forget existential worries, just get yourselves a couple of dogs, and everything will be all right.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like calamity for refreshing the moment. Ironically, the last several years my life had begun to feel shapeless, like underwear with… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Part of what I've learned is that if it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“He is wearing an old overcoat from the Salvation Army in Easton, Pennsylvania. It cost five bucks ten years ago, Louise remembers. Henry is… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Take any ten years of your life, reduce them to two pages, and every sentence has to be three words long. It's a good… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Is memory property? If two people remember something differently is one of them wrong?” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Good things happen slowly,” said a doctor in the ICU months ago, “and bad things happen fast.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“A friend's mother ate nothing but clams for six months. Morning, noon, and night, nothing but clams. 'I don't know what it is -… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“...but they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
