Status Updates From The Minor Adjustment Beauty...

There are times when it is necessary to punish people to make them face up to their actions - and to make others feel that justice has been done.

There were moments when one knew that a few words uttered could change somebody's life.

Everything happens, sooner or later, just about everything happens..We need a story about ourselves, but does it really matter whether it is the true one or it has been made up? I wonder..You mean, as long as we believe it ourselves?..At the end of the day, aren't we all the same? Aren't we simply people?

It was an exchange they had had countless times b4-one of those rituals between friends dat never change very much yet never seem 2 grow stale. And these words, of course, were a prelude 2 others that had been uttered may times & yet were equally valued, as much 4 their familiarity as 4 anything else..Among old friends d agenda can be a wide one, even if v know wat they are likely 2 say & have heard it all before

The first step from having nothing to having something, even if not much, was always thrilling.

But there was something odd about the smile..Although you could say what it was not, you could not necessarily say what it was.

Sometimes saying what is true may not be altogether true but is still not a lie.

There was simply no telling, she felt, and you had to be prepared to find anything.

One could never really understand other people's marriages..A marriage, she had learned, is seldom what it seems to be on the surface; what appears to be the most equable, well settled of arrangements might be a seething mass of discontent and resentment underneath. And conversely, chaotic and noisy relationships, littered with conflict and infidelity, might prove to be the most durable of unions.

They remained silent after that, sitting in the silence of a friendship that was the greatest and deepest and most valuable friendship that either of them had ever had, or ever would have.

..when confronted with danger one should not make sudden movements: they could trigger an attack from whatever it was that posed the danger.