“It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.”

“It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.”

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

“We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.”

“It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.”