Casebook Quotes

“Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope that there’d been a mistake and she was after all.”
― Mona Simpson, Casebook

“Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?”
― Mona Simpson, Casebook

“These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.”
― Mona Simpson, Casebook

“The way Eli looked at her, my dad looked at the food.”
― Mona Simpson, Casebook

“Then what were feelings worth? Like currency, their value depended on a sound treasury, so love from a liar was pretty worthless.”
― Mona Simpson, Casebook

“That's what you do. You find the best angle. You crop. You edit. That's not cheating. That's love.”
― Mona Simpson, Casebook

“We come into the world whole, all of us,but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.”
― Mona Simpson, Casebook

“A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies.”
― Mona Simpson, Casebook