Great Circle

by Maggie Shipstead

Life gives you lemons, you carve off their skins and garnish your martinis.

Closure doesn’t really exist, though. That’s why we’re always looking for it.

I’ve learned—too slowly, but I have learned—that attempts to control others are likely to backfire.

People’s wishes for their own lives tend to outweigh others’ ideas about how they should behave.”

One thing I learned is that you don’t just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them.

We went into the hotel through a secret entrance for high rollers and The Famous, up a secret elevator. Vegas is full of these hidden portals, gilded crawl spaces for golden rats.