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Occasionally, her mindset was I am coasting, and coasting is unhealthy. Mostly, her mindset was I am coasting, and it sure feels nice to coast.
If she was always conducting the interview, it would never fall to her to be the subject.
redheads were polarizing, like marzipan and universal health care.
How undignified to be both the game show host and the prize money.
powerful, and twice as surprising, was the disappointment. It hadn’t been worth it. No one had ever said anything about that.
You have to make decisions. Nothing changes unless you change it.
He spoke the way an unpaved road looked,
Karma was merely the demonstrable truism that bad shit happened to everyone if you waited around long enough.
it struck her as madly unfair that there was such a thing as marital infidelity, that we built institutions in which so much hurt was possible, and that a night of pancakes and wine couldn’t fix everything.
everything would turn out okay because there were so many different ways for things to turn out okay.
“When you’re in a canoe, you always float downriver. Nothing can change your direction. Something could come along and capsize your boat—rapids, a storm, a fallen tree—but there’s no force in the world strong enough to reverse your course. If you’re on that river, you’re going down that river. I feel like my marriage changed directions on me. It decided to swim upstream. And that feels even more unnatural than if the whole mess just sank altogether.
He knew that if you slept with a woman who was not your wife, you earned the privilege of only sleeping with women who were not your wife.
Such was the karmic spanking, almost poetic in its simplicity. Integrity would continue to edge out biology
