J. Courtney Sullivan
Books by J. Courtney Sullivan
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Friends and Strangers
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The engagements
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Maine
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Quotes by J. Courtney Sullivan
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Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
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Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.
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Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.
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The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.
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And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.
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With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.
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Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.
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The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.
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How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?
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These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought of making their own happiness and chasing some crazy dream, all they want to do is narrow their options and do something safe.
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Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.
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Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.
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Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
Read quote -
And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.
Read quote -
Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.
Read quote -
With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.
Read quote -
These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought of making their own happiness and chasing some crazy dream, all they want to do is narrow their options and do something safe.
Read quote -
The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.
Read quote -
The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.
Read quote -
How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?
Read quote