“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
“I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.”
“She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him.""Why?""Because I wanted to be with you.”
“I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things were okay for a little while.”
“I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like to hear it.”
“I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd exactly done that.”