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1 " we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend. "
― Meg Waite Clayton , The Wednesday Sisters
2 " Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Ally’s model book. “I like the family that comes together in the barn,” Ally said without hesitation. “I like that they aren’t all the same thing; one is human and one’s a spider and one’s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love. "
3 " Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested. "
4 " Henry Adams said, ‘One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible,’” she said. “What is it we’ve done so right in our lives that has made us five? "
5 " I’m not saying I shouldn’t have changed sooner, or that we can’t change our views about things until we have to deal with them in real life. But I’m trying to get down to the raw truth of it all here, even if it doesn’t show me at my best. I’m trying to be as honest as I possibly can. "
6 " I had entirely too much foolish pride to go with my foolish ideas. Enough that, when mixed with my insecurity, left me standing paralyzed, unable to get past the possibility that a repentant me would be rejected as surely as the unrepentant one and I’d be left without a scrap of dignity. Dignity. How is it that it’s most important to us when we’re least entitled to it? "
7 " She took my hand and opened it, and she stared at my palm for a moment as if my future might really be found in the lines there—and why not, since God had created my hand and my future both? "
8 " I believed—most Americans believed—that the spread of communism would mean loss of freedom and torture and death, and perhaps even nuclear war. We never imagined the communist world would just collapse as it did in the Soviet Union years later. We thought the only way to preserve our lifestyle was to fight theirs. And we couldn’t, truthfully, imagine that America might be wrong. We didn’t like to imagine that what we were doing as a country could be imperialist or illegal or just plain immoral any more than we liked to imagine an America that could be defeated by a small country of small people we thought of as less intelligent and less compassionate and less worthy than we were. So we just didn’t imagine it. Even "
9 " Every man is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. "
