Here One Moment

by Liane Moriarty

Symptoms often mean nothing because they are not, in fact, symptoms, they are just the normal niggles and quibbles of being alive.

He’d noticed that when it came to women you should often do the exact opposite of what you intuitively thought you should do.

It’s their hubris that makes men both so adorable and exasperating, don’t you think?)

“He’s not here, Dad. We kind of lost touch.” That’s what you say. You don’t say “we broke up” when a friendship ends. You don’t say “we’re estranged” if it’s not a family member. You say you “lost touch,” as if you carelessly misplaced your friend, as if it’s not one of your life’s greatest failures and regrets.