“Forget career, forget the future, forget existential worries, just get yourselves a couple of dogs, and everything will be all right.” — Abigail Thomas Dogs 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… — Abigail Thomas Excess 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… — Abigail Thomas Life 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 Death 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.… — Abigail Thomas Another man 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… — Abigail Thomas Language Copy Share Image
“Is memory property? If two people remember something differently is one of them wrong?” — Abigail Thomas Memory Copy Share Image
“Good things happen slowly,” said a doctor in the ICU months ago, “and bad things happen fast.” — Abigail Thomas Bad thing 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… — Abigail Thomas Friendship Copy Share Image
“...but they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next.” — Abigail Thomas Writing Copy Share Image
“She would (if she could) put her arm around the girl she'd been and try to tell her Take it easy, but… — Abigail Thomas Memoir Copy Share Image
“Well now I know I can control my tongue, my temper & my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on… — Abigail Thomas Good thing Copy Share Image
“the last several years my life had begun to feel shapeless, like underwear with the elastic gone, the days down around my… — Abigail Thomas Life Copy Share Image
“A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said two… — Abigail Thomas Excess Copy Share Image
“It's easy now - it's middle-aged lady, nobody's looking, nobody notices. I go without lipstick if I feel like it, and I… — Abigail Thomas Life 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… — Abigail Thomas Death and dying Copy Share Image
