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So, please, Phoebe, don’t let that happen… or I’ll haunt you forever.
“There’s a difference between rushing through something to get to the other side and doing it right.”
“I like to think I’m a sunflower.”
“I think I’ll have all girls and raise them to believe they can do anything they damn well please.”
“You’re like Thoreau, and this is your Walden Pond.” “‘Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails,’” John quoted.
When I bring whoever the future Mrs. Pierce is here, I don’t want her facing any shadows from the past. I bought this place for her.”
“I’m telling you we’re getting married and your parents are moving in with us. I’ll get a second job if I need to. A third one, too. But you’re not going. I’m sorry. It’s a great opportunity. But you have to stay.”
Parenthood is a festering nightmare dotted with moments of truly blissful wonderment.
This is insanely accurate
And I could use a little time away from my army of adorable assholes. I mean, I love them more than anything in this universe, but sometimes I just want to drive away and never come back.”
“Well, that’s my point. When you know what’s best, don’t waste your time fooling around with women or ice cream that you don’t really like.”
“Honey, John Pierce has been spreading his wisdom for years. We all sound like him.”
Grief called for movement. Anything to keep you going forward one step at a time.
There wasn’t one hole where the man had been. There were a thousand.
Life was hard, but that’s what made it so incredibly good. That’s what made her appreciate every second that she had on this earth. Even on the darkest day, there was still beauty to see, still love to find. There was still a beginning to find in every end.
