Quotes from Karen Templeton

And I began to realize that ultimately I was responsible for my own happiness, that blaming other people was counterproductive.

That, if I'm being honest, Manhattan is just a place like any other. Its power to mesmerize, to seduce, to excite, is in direct proportion to my willingness to be mesmerized, seduced, excited. That it really is all about perspective.

Because whether I live for another seventy years or another week, what's the point if I'm not living the life I want?

one of the hardest things about being a mother is accepting that just because you give your kids life, that doesn't give you the right to live it for them.

I attempt to process the myriad thoughts her comment provokes, but they all collide in my head and are now lying prone like the Three Stooges after a pratfall.

But mostly it's because my head's too full. So I have to keep thinking until it's empty, and then I can go to sleep.

Nikky goes on about whatever it is Nikky goes on about for another thirty seconds or so, then sweeps into the back to assuredly wreak more havoc, leaving a zillion startled molecules in her wake.

Assistant to name designer," the ad had said. Yeah, well, she has a name all right. But then, so do we all.

There's that word again. Understand. I think, obliquely, that maybe even more than love or food or shelter or sex, what the human animal craves most is for another human being to understand him.

And that's just what this feels like, a bad scene from a third-rate soap. I half expect to hear the ominous, minor chord before we cut away to a detergent commercial.

we were sucked into the sea of gyrating bodies like socks into a washing machine's agitator. Seconds later, bruised and sweaty and alone, I was spit out at the other end.