“Sisters keep secrets.Because sisters' secrets are swords.”

“August is a teacher's longest Sunday" -Weird Sisters”

“I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret adults keep from you? That you never feel like a grown-up?”

“He had the singular ability to knock down her carefully bricked defenses, which was a compliment to them both and the secret to their love.”

“I’m just like this speed bump in the middle, slowing everyone down because I keep fucking up.”

“But the truth was, we had failed, and rather than let anyone else know, we crafted careful excuses and alibis, and wrapped them around ourselves like a cloak to keep out the cold truth.”

“There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those many years later. We have always wondered why there is not more research done on the children of happy marriages. Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married.How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that?”