Quotation

He’d looked like a two-year-old midparoxysm. === At home, you live relatively calm, placid, mundane lives. You go over there and live in mortal fear, and then you’re supposed to come back home and be calm, placid, and mundane again. Human beings don’t work that way. === Maya felt the quick pang of the working mother: grateful that her daughter liked her nanny so much while ungrateful that her daughter liked her nanny so much. === “I’m not judging.” “Not even a little?” “What kind of friend would I be if I didn’t judge a little?” === Some believed that there had to be at least a small life force— that energy and motion never die completely, that the soul is eternal, that you can’t destroy matter permanently, all that. === No one who married a Burkett was anything but a tolerated outsider. === “Ex-brother-in-law” seemed like something more for a divorce. Do you say “former brother-in-law”? Do you just stick with “brother-in-law”? More inanity designed to distract.