“It was Serena who'd said that motherhood was much too hard and, when you got right down to it, perhaps not worth the effort.”
“Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.”
“The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.”
“One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
“When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.”
“She more than likely came from good enough people. Poor, honest, hard-working folks that never got ahead but did all right as long as they kept their heads down and didn't study too much on what they didn't have.”