This is Your Life Quotes

“Families always seem to me like this weird accident.” “What do you mean?” Opal asked. “I don’t know,” said Erica. She gestured with both hands, fingers splayed. “It’s almost as if a bunch of people who have absolutely no reason to be together all drew straws and somehow wound up on the same commune.”
― Meg Wolitzer, This Is My Life

“At Lincoln Center there were always Young People's Concerts, and her class had once gone to one on a Saturday field trip. She had been to concerts before, of course, but it had always been at night, and with her mother. This matinee had a very different feeling to it.(…) It was wintertime, and the flu was swirling through the coatrooms of all the private schools of New York. In the darkness a child coughed from time to time, and another child coughed back in response, like two dogs tied in separate yards, barking to each other to keep company throughout the night.”
― Meg Wolitzer, This is Your Life