The Last Original Wife Quotes

“As we did every New Year's Eve we made ridiculous resolutions that no one would keep, and quietly we all wondered what the coming year would hold, each of us praying for our own private miracles. Good health. Better health. A marriage for this child, a good job for another. This hopefulness was something hardwired into our psyches, that a new year might mean some monumental something wonderful could happen to bring us happiness at a level we had never known. A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be peace on earth for one entire day.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“Maybe as you aged, what you wanted from a relationship changed too.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“Dreams made your eyes sparkle over the possibilities of doing something new and exciting. Reality made the rest of you break a sweat in panic. I was terrified.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“Once I figured out what I was going to do with my life, I was definitely going to get a dog. Maybe I’d get a rescue. I liked the idea of an older dog that was already broken in and just needed a loving home. The irony was, that wasn’t too different from how I was feeling about myself.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“They say you only have so many breaths in your lifetime, and I think disappointments might be the same.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“Few people realize how much courage it takes in a community like ours to ignore the established taboos.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“Dreams made your eyes sparkle over the possibilities of doing something new and exciting. Reality made the rest of you break a sweat in panic.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“Yeah, I know.” The poor girl. I felt very bad”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“You could tell a lot about the soul of an organization by the reading material in its waiting area.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“How’s that?”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“sure we”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife