“You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.”
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We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.