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The only thing Heather has ever done with a secret is keep it.
“Just promise not to wear statement necklaces and fake eyelashes and take cruises in the Mediterranean looking for a rich replacement husband.” Sharon blinks. That had been her plan exactly.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?
The late great novelist John Gardner famously said that there are only two plots: One, a person goes on a journey, and two, a stranger comes to town.” Lucky
ugly sensible shoes.
Why is the casual traveler in America so decidedly unstylish?
how was Sharon supposed to get any news if she didn’t chat?).
He’s one of six people she’ll answer her phone for.
If Blond Sharon doesn’t know about it, has it even happened?
there’s a lot of navy blue and white.
Nantucket is something completely different. There isn’t a tattoo in sight.
Coco likes to be aware of her surroundings and knows she should open her eyes
Books had raised her (Jane Austen had taught her how to comport herself at a dinner party like this one), and movies allowed her to escape the chaos going on outside her bedroom door.
people are strolling around with their ten-dollar coffees,
a stoicism that she must have cultivated during her years in the NICU.
Does he feel like he can assert himself because he’s a man, a white man?
She’s been here fifteen minutes and already she feels like she needs a shower.
My apartment. My car. This job is like a seesaw, Coco thinks. The lows: no days off, wearing a freaking uniform, and delivering a hundred invitations by hand like she’s a character in The Age of Innocence. The highs: cash money (as long as she doesn’t get in trouble with the IRS; do they bother with poor folks like her?) and the view.
she’s here for a reason, and it’s not to find a boyfriend.
It’s almost like he knows I’m watching, Coco thinks. He’s showing off.
Sharon knows everything about everyone and isn’t afraid to share.
Sharon loves that Romeo is secure enough in his masculinity to dance to Beyoncé.
What has he learned? The person who needs the least will always have the power.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?
the cutest red jean jacket that she’d asked her sister, Heather, to pick up from the Saks in Chevy Chase.
A chorus of happy screams goes up from the boat. Avalon is so glad she’s not on it.
breathe; the biggest threat to his health isn’t cherry pie, it’s stress.
She moves one inch closer to him but does not touch him. She wants him to be the one to cross the line.
Sharon has become the kind of woman she never understood before—someone who doesn’t need to talk about other people to make her days more interesting because her days are interesting enough as it is.
Coco, who has been visiting the English manor of Fox Corner in her mind—thank god for books!—
High road, Coco thinks. Quiet dignity. Princess Diana, Grace Kelly, Sidney Poitier.
It is absolutely the most hideous feeling, fighting with your best friend.
Coco stands well out of the way. She dreads nothing more than a conga line.
Juice dribbles down her chin, leaving golden drops on her white sheets, but in the next second, the cherry is devoured and she’s kissing Lamont and who cares about the sheets and who cares about Leslee?
A swingers theme, strong cocktails, tiny bites of food, a hot tub—what could go wrong?
chafing dish of grape-jelly meatballs.
He would like to get out of this people soup
(Is it surprising that the weak links are all men? Not to Sharon.)
As she falls asleep, she realizes that for the first time in years, maybe decades, she doesn’t know where her phone is and she doesn’t care.
