“One definition for rebound is, increasing strength after a previous decline. Another is to bounce back and make a recovery”

“Oh I never fake it... I make it a point never to reward bad behavior”

“Normally this is where she would have told him to put his dick in the doorway, so she could slam the door shut on her way out”

“Anxiety has forged another weather.”

“It seemed to him that every time he made one choice in his life, he said no to another. All of those things he could not do or be were huddled inside of him; they might spring up at any moment, and he would be hobbled with regret.”

“the task ahead is never as great as the strength within”

“...Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching-forward names, not looking-back ones.”