Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.
The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot. - Meg Wolitzer
The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.
- Meg Wolitzer
While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the other, Mengestu tracks both… - Meg Wolitzer
While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the other, Mengestu tracks both…
Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love. - Meg Wolitzer
Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.
We are all here, on this earth for only one go around. And everyone thinks their purpose is to just find their passion. But perhaps our purpose is to… - Meg Wolitzer
We are all here, on this earth for only one go around. And everyone thinks their purpose is to just find their passion. But perhaps our purpose is to…
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see … - Meg Wolitzer
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see …
I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it … - Meg Wolitzer
I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it …
When I wrote The Interestings, I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move … - Meg Wolitzer
When I wrote The Interestings, I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move …
The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it… - Meg Wolitzer
The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it…
You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression. - Meg Wolitzer
You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
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