Three Days in June Quotes

“Someday I’d like to be given credit for all the times I have not said something that I could have said.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“Sometimes when I find out what's on other people's minds I honestly wonder if we all live on totally separate planets.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“anger fades, the sadness comes right back again the same as ever.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“That’s something you forget when you’ve been on your own awhile: those married-couple conversations that continue intermittently for weeks, sometimes, branching out and doubling back and looping into earlier strands like a piece of crochet work. I found a parking space a short”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“Because one of life’s frustrations is that sometimes, it’s best to say nothing.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“I forgot about him, basically, and in the rare moments when he came to mind I wondered what had ever drawn me to him. Why had I, who truly loved my husband—at least in the on-again-off-again, maybe/maybe-not, semi-happy way of just about any married woman—broken apart my whole world for a man I never really knew? But maybe that was just it: I hadn’t known him. There are times when that can be the strongest draw of all.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“Cats are not coldhearted!” I said. “They’re only protecting their dignity, in case they get rejected. ‘I’ll just reject you first,’ they’re saying.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“You have the matrilineal advantage, though," he told me.
"The what?"
"It's a term I heard on the radio this morning. The mother of the wife gets dibs on the family holidays, most often, and she tends to see more of her grandchildren than the mother of the husband does.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“Anger feels so much better than sadness, cleaner somehow and more definite. But then, when the anger fades, the sadness comes right back again, the same as ever.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“I’m too young for this, I thought. Not too old, as you might expect, but too young, too inept, too uninformed. How come there weren’t any grownups around? Why did everyone just assume I knew what I was doing?”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“I thought you were vegetarian!” “I am, but I’ve never really felt that chickens were sentient beings.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“That's something you forget when you've been on your own awhile: those married-couple conversations that continue intermittently for weeks, sometimes, branching out and doubling back and looping into earlier strands like a piece of crochet work.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“Boundaries; that was his problem. He lacked boundaries. I myself was all about boundaries.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“he thought I’d hung the moon. It’s hard to resist someone who thinks you hung the moon.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“You need to avoid saying things like ‘Good God, Mrs. Morris, surely you realize that you daughter doesn’t have the slightest chance of getting into Princeton.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“But children veer out from their parents like so many explorers in the wilderness, I’ve learned. They’re not mere duplicates of”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“He studied me. "What you need," he said finally, "is a thunder jacket."
"A what?"
"One of those really snug jackets they put on dogs who are afraid of thunder. I mean, good grief! Do you keep an itemized list of things to worry about? How do you remember them all?”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“I didn’t let on that I’d been fielding such complaints for most of my life. Couldn’t I ever settle for just okay? I’d been asked more than once.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“La rabia sabe mucho mejor que la tristeza. Es más limpia, en cierto modo, y más definida. Pero luego, cuando la rabia se esfuma, la tristeza vuelve a ocupar su sitio, igual que siempre.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“Two completely different women: one who loved her husband the same as always, and another who wanted to reach out a finger and very, very gently nudge this man's smile a smidgen higher at the corners.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“Why had I registered Max's awe as he cupped my face, his look of utter adoration, but given not one passing thought to whether I had adored him?”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“I said, “You had the chicken dish too?” “I did.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“say.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“too young, too inept, too uninformed.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“that I believe I have only one span of life allotted to me. I don’t feel I have the option of just…trying out various random ideas and giving up if they don’t work out.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“believed that human beings were capable of change.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“stage of life when I was done with caretaking.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“You had to wonder, sometimes, how on earth Max’s mind worked.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“He studied me. “What you need,” he said finally, “is a thunder jacket.” “A what?” “One of those really snug jackets they put on dogs who are scared of thunder. I mean, good grief! Do you keep an itemized list of things to worry about? How do you remember them all?”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“What was I supposed to do with the rest of my life?”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June