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“My love for you hasn’t changed.”
In case Matthew doesn’t listen to his voice mail (does anyone listen to voice mail anymore?), she sends a text: I love you, Dr. M. You’re important to me. We are important to me.
Caroline is furious with her mother for reasons she can’t articulate, and the stark truth is that Caroline is still in so much emotional pain that holding a grudge feels good.
Look for a chink in the armor, he said, where you can penetrate the surface and discover a hidden truth.
Hollis uses a TikTok hack to arrange the flowers: She crosshatches tape across the top of the vase so the flowers stand up straight, and she adds vinegar, sugar, and ice to the water to keep the flowers fresh.
Your generation is both fragile and entitled, and no one is allowed to call you on it because you have been given the power to ruin a person’s career by pushing a few buttons.
cilantro-and-lime-marinated swordfish with avocado sauce, a summer squash tart with goat cheese and mint, a large green salad, and homemade baguettes with black pepper butter that, yes, her mother churned herself like a pioneer woman. This will be followed by peach cobbler with a hot sugar crust topped with fresh whipped cream, and tiny squares of Japanese chocolate.
“You can be more than one kind of person in your life,” he says. “But I’ve always been a person who loves Hollis Shaw.”
“The thing I love best about reading fiction is that it gives you a way to connect the experiences of your own life to the larger world,”
“The definition of best friend is the person who guards the door of the Kmart bathroom while you’re peeing on the stick and never tells a soul.”
The loneliest place in the world, she realizes, is between two other people.
