Quotes About Reflection

She'd visited the Continent five times on vacation and twice on business trips with Alfred, so about a dozen times altogether, and to friends planning tours of Spain or France she now liked to say, with a sigh, that she'd had her fill of the place.

Que una persona no dé buen uso a su vida no significa que su vida deje de transcurrir. De hecho, su vida transcurre aún más deprisa.

it would have been better to have forced herself to see more of her parents in the critical years of her own parenthood, so as to better understand her kids' response to her.

The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone ~~Jonathan Franzen

theoretically sorry

The first thing reading teaches us is how to be alone

Patty começou a chorar por motivos que se sentia triste demais para examinar.

There was something almost tasty and almost sexy in letting the annoying boy be punished by her husband. In standing blamelessly aside while the boy suffered for having hurt her. What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

His life was much fuller than hers, and the breathing space this gave her was welcome.

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no prison was clearly preferable.

I bet you're rethinking your decision not to abort me, right around now. It turns out to be so much more painful to wait twenty years for me to do it myself.

How the hours can pass with mere kissing is lost to me now, along with the rest of my youth.

His inner life now consisted of little but obsessing about his image on an Internet that felt like death to him; of

Hour after hour, my father lay unmoving and worked his way toward death; but when he yawned, the yawn was his. And his body, wasted though it was, was likewise still radiantly his.

She felt as if, while working and sleeping and working and sleeping, she'd aged so rapidly that she'd passed Emile and caught up with her parents.

Whatever chemistry she and Jason had had was still there, if only in the form of regret about never really having acted on it.

He thought of calling her again, if only to resupply himself with shame, but the purity of the hurt of losing her was of a piece with the season's dark afternoons and long nights.

Watching him fall down and pick himself back up, Perry mourned no longer being small enough that falling didn't hurt. He no longer even remembered how it felt to have the ground so unthreateningly proximate. Why had he been in such a hurry to grow up? It was as if he'd never experienced the grace of childhood.

Well, just remember," Gary said, "there's more to life than cooking. You're at a stage now where you need to start thinking about what you really want and how you're going to get it.

him under house arrest was in his head. Hearing

He wasn't constituted to hate himself subjectively, but he did hate the object he was in the world.

Jonathan Franzen

It was the prospect of another two or three or five years of sex in the ashes that made me think of death.

In the instant before it was over and pure nothing, he heard all the human voices in the world.