Author of quotes: Anne Tyler

There is always this feeling of "thank you, God," when you finally get on the train. And immediately, literally in a couple of minutes, "I would rather come".

Abby had one trick to those cases when Red began to behave like an old moron. She remembered the day she fell in love with him.
"It was a beautiful, windy, yellowish-green afternoon..." - she began, and everything returned to her - and this novelty, and a huge new world, magically revealed the minute she first realized that the man whom she had barely noticed for many years was in fact a true treasure. He was perfect, that's what she told herself. And then suddenly, through sagging skin, crumpled eyelids, sunken cheeks and deep depressions at the mouth, through nonsense, stupid stubbornness and the outrageous belief that simple cold logic solves all life's problems, a calm clear-eyed young man again appeared. And Abby again understood what an indescribable happiness it was that she had got this beautiful, handsome prince as her husband.

Parents of difficult children never say out loud about one thing: what a relief it is for them that children grew up normal people. But where do these parents put their anger, accumulated for many years?

Perhaps, deep down, Abby was convinced that life could not go on without her. How human beings are prone to self-deception!

Someone must see us off to another world!

Daughters-in-law are worse than sons-in-law - everyone agrees on this.

Trust me, it was a black day for the universe when people learned to look for the symptoms of their illnesses online.

“I don’t know for sure,” Abby said. - Nowadays, you ask people about children and you understand that they don't even want to say anything. They mumble: "Well, you know, our son graduated from Yale, but now he, uh ..." And in the end it turns out that he is a bartender or makes cappuccino and generally returned and lives at home again.

Happiness is fiction. We need to decide what you're happy, that's all.