“Believe what you believe, my dear, but believe gently. Believe compassionately. Believe with curiosity. Believe with humility. And don’t trust the arrogance of certainty. I mean, my goodness, Elizabeth, if you want the gods to really laugh at you, then by all means call it your forever home

experience that people who feel themselves to be actually servile or weak ever act very happy about it.

“A cop finds this guy crawling around a lamppost one night. The cop says, ‘What are you doing?’ and the guy says, ‘Looking for my keys.’ The cop says, ‘You lost them under the lamppost?’ and the guy says, ‘No, but this is where the light

But what they hadn’t considered was that people don’t stay like-minded forever. And when their minds changed, so did the family.

They have a bearing that makes it seem like they’re aware their photograph is being taken but don’t care to participate.

Don’t you find the symbolism delicious? Don’t you find it all so beautiful?”

“People usually look for new relationships that are antidotes to whatever problems they had in previous relationships,” Kyle said, “but in so doing we often end up, paradoxically, in relationships that have exactly those same problems.”

could choose to be certain, or you could choose to be alive. And the only

she worries that either she has ruined the evening by being arrogant or he is about to ruin the evening by being one of those disappointing guys intimidated by her ambition.