The Slippery Year Quotes

“Why do you always think the sky is falling? Maybe the sky is calling, not falling.”
― Melanie Gideon, The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After

“There comes a time in every mother’s life when it becomes very clear that your child is a much better person than you are, but you’re not allowed to say this because then where would you go from there—admitting such a thing to a nine-year-old?”
― Melanie Gideon, The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After

“There’s this strange phenomenon. An hour after you’ve put your children to sleep, the ways in which you have wronged them sprawl out on your chest, all two hundred and fifty pounds of them, and suck the breath right out of you. It works the same way with gratitude. An hour after your family has left the house, you love them with a piercing intensity that was nowhere to be found when you were scraping egg yolk off their breakfast dishes. Your hope is to one day feel this way about them when they’re in the room. This is a pretty lofty goal.”
― Melanie Gideon, The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After