Watermelon Quotes
"It thrilled me to the middle-class marrow of my bourgeois bones."
"Our motto was 'Not only is the customer always wrong, he is likely to be very badly dressed into the bargain.'"
"I loved books. And I loved reading. And I loved men who read."
"We exchanged some more words. Just a few. But they were enough to let me know that he was nice and clever and funny."
"Sometimes people don’t volunteer to be victims and they become victims anyway. It’s not their fault."
"I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance."
"Nothing like a crisis to bring people together, as they say."
"I could understand James leaving me—well, actually, I couldn’t—but I really couldn’t understand how he could leave this beautiful, perfect little child."
"Life would see to that. Just when you think you have it all figured out, life throws you a curveball."
"But there was nothing to be gained by feeling jealous. And it wouldn’t have mattered if there was. Jealousy is a green-eyed monster that makes a mockery of the sufferer."
"My sobriety was less than judgelike, but I was at one with the universe."
"Every morning after a party I staggered down to the kitchen and for a second I paused with my hand on the kitchen doorknob."
"Instead, as I gingerly picked my way through the debris, I was hard-pressed to find even an unbroken glass."
"And while we’re on the subject of dinner parties, I’d like the answer to a couple of questions."
"Why do I always use the butter dish as an ashtray?"
"Just for the record, the Guinness causes the Dubonnet to curdle in the most disgusting fashion."
"If the baby had been a boy would James have tried to make a go of things with me?"
"And what about our apartment? We had bought it together and it was in both our names."
"I felt as if I’d wandered out onto a balcony and suddenly realized, to my horror, that there was no ground at all beneath me."
"I should have been a strong, sassy, independent, nineties woman."
"I was perfectly happy to be a homemaker while my husband went out to earn the loot."
"But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it?"
"I can’t describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us."
"Little did I think, the warm April day three years ago when I married James, that our union would end in such a way."
"I lay Kate back down in her bassinet while I went to take a shower. I was obviously really getting to grips with this living business."
"In the shower, I couldn’t stop thinking about James."
"When I first met James and we were out with other people, I would watch him across a room, talking to someone else."
"I had met a man who loved me unconditionally."
"So the opportunities for having a good laugh with James were far more plentiful and in far better places."
"I had accepted that my life would never be the same again and would never be the way I had planned it."
"There's no shame in loving me, you know. It's not a sign of weakness to love someone and sometimes feel insecure."
"You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant."
"I knew that James would provide for Kate—oh yes, I knew. Believe me, I knew it."
"Being grown-up is not all you're led to believe it is."
"I was so childish. I was just itching for a chance to say something mean."
"It's not that I felt he had two-timed me. I was hardly in any position to object, what with me being married."
"I wasn’t normally the kind of person who sees signs and portents and reasons and explanations in events."