Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons Quotes

“She liked to think that she was wearing her beauty out—using it up, she liked to think. She took some satisfaction in it, like a housewife industriously making her way through a jar of something she did not enjoy, would not buy again, but couldn’t just discard, of course.”
― Anne Tyler, Anne Tyler Omnibus: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons