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Greer’s mother took her aside and told her that the most important skill required in marriage was picking one’s battles.
Stop time, Karen thinks. She doesn’t want to get out of the car. She wants to stay right here, with all of those sumptuous plans still in front of her, forever.
Nick doesn’t have children, and he has never been married, but his sister, Helena, has three kids and what Nick remembers from Helena’s pregnancies is that a certain amount of personal dignity goes out the window.
The Chief has learned over the past decade that if you want to know the truth about a person, just look through his or her phone.
“She threw her shoes at me. She screamed. She smashed her phone and that made her cry. She’s in love with her phone.” “So many people are,” Celeste says.
She has been loved in her life, deeply and truly loved. She has been known and understood. Is there anything more she is supposed to want?
He understands he can’t speak for anyone else’s interior life, but his life has been so blessed—up to this point—that he has had no need for religion.
