Small World Quotes

“Sisterhood, like marriage, takes hard work. And, like marriage, both sisters have to really want to be in the relationship to stay together.”
― Laura Zigman, Small World

“He wanted me to be free of the past so I could be open to the future. So Alan named him after the white pines at Camp Fantastic. The tall, tall trees that had watched over Asher, and Eleanor, and everyone who had ever come here. The trees that framed a small beautiful world where joy transcended grief, and where the sounds of children, once alive, now gone, can still be heard.”
― Laura Zigman, Small World

“If life—and my job—have taught me anything, it should be that every family is a mille-feuille of pathos and neuroses, sins and secrets. Someday I’ll stop assuming that everyone except me grew up feeling at home in their homes.”
― Laura Zigman, Small World

“Isn’t everyone’s true purpose to love and be loved? To be in service to and to take care of those who need us most?”
― Laura Zigman, Small World

“I meant that sometimes we choose partners who, in some ways, remind us of our parents. The good and the bad parts of them.”
― Laura Zigman, Small World

“And yet: reacting feels involuntary. As long as we’re both breathing, we’ll probably forever misread each other’s faces; second-guess and misinterpret each other’s thoughts, feelings, and motives in the worst possible way.”
― Laura Zigman, Small World

“Maybe my behavior is less about what I’m hiding and more about wanting to keep things hidden. Secrecy feels like power. And safety.”
― Laura Zigman, Small World

“the painful irony of your mother fighting for inclusion that doesn’t include you is still decades away.”
― Laura Zigman, Small World

“Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish”
― Laura Zigman, Small World