Heaven Adjacent

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

“What call?” “The one I suggested earlier. Where you call the

there. With the amount of money I’ve accumulated in various holdings, I

Cummings?” Roseanna closed her eyes and listened to the rain before speaking. “I guess everything is, to some extent. But it’s also about me.” “I’m going to say something that I never would have said to you before. Before now I would have kept this to myself out of respect, and out of feeling like I have no right to comment on your life. You’re my boss. There are boundaries. But I guess I don’t work for you anymore. And I probably won’t see you again after tonight.

People come into our lives, she thought, and it’s not always a forever kind of thing, and not always meant to be. Not every deal is for keeps.

Life

“there comes a time in the life of every child when they need to learn they’re not the center of the universe.”

I guess I like it because it’s hard. I have to struggle for it. But then, when it’s done, I feel good about what I did. I feel gratified.

Gratified

“Right. You need to tell more people that story about Alice.” “Why do I need to do that?” “Because they’re not happy, miss.

Haven’t you noticed that? Because hardly anybody is happy.” Chapter Eleven Thank You for Not Biting A couple of weeks and several trout-and-egg breakfasts passed, and no one new came along to

Happy

“You’re just a treat in every sense of the word, aren’t you?”

Lol

So tell me what matters more. Money? Being right? Or being happy and living a peaceful life?”

Whats most important to you?

It’s not the worst thing in the world, doing nothing. You just have to get used to it.”

Like a pandemi

“They didn’t understand that simple fact of the world,” she added. “About how I can have anybody here I want and not anybody I don’t. So they weren’t brought up right. I only want people here who were brought up right.” They

Important to be brought up right,