“She was getting over it. She could feel it. Maybe she would never entirely be over him, but she thought she was beginning to see that a fairly normal future could be hers again.” — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“Pru curled up in the bay window and looked out at the city. People were going to the movies, parents were putting their children… — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“More in-betweens: late afternoon, early spring, adolescence, falling in love. She hated the in-betweens. Always, she just wanted to get where she was going… — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“She was getting over it. She could feel it. Maybe she would never entirely be over him, but she thought she was beginning to… — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“You know how you’re at a party and you pick up the wrong beer, and you know after one sip that it’s not yours?… — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“Dear, he was the bad dress of men - a bit too short and clinging to you in all the wrong places.” — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“She was old to know that marriages were like children. They had lives of their own and didn't necessarily act the way you thought… — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“Do you remember that scene in Airplane! where the guy with the flags is waving a jet into its gate, then someone asks him… — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“Married people, thought Pru, never pictured single people as they really were, eating dinner from a tin with the cat on the table.” — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“And the rules! How Pru loved rules! It wasn't so much that she like following rules, but knowing what they were gave her a… — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“Listen,” he said, raising himself up on one elbow. “You don’t just decide one day you’re going to run a marathon, right? You have… — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
