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1 " So much of marriage is spent only half paying attention to each other. Talking while driving. Talking while watching Netflix. Talking while staring at a toddler, or scanning utility bills or catalogs from the mail or Evites for some distant weekend. "
― Matthew Norman , Last Couple Standing
2 " There’s that first few seconds, right when you wake up in the morning, when your head is absolutely clear. It’s like a computer booting up—its screen perfectly clean and white—before the train wreck of your desktop clogs everything up with its disorganized jumble of crap. "
3 " Free Fallin’ ” by Tom Petty came on, so he turned it up, because everything’s simpler when Tom Petty’s on the radio. We’re all just good girls who love our mamas, horses, and America, too, goddammit. "
4 " In their divorces—maybe in every divorce in the history of divorces—there was a moment when things could’ve gone either way. “Maybe this will save us before we need saving,” she said. "
5 " Why would some decent guy our age wanna talk to me? He can go on his phone and find a hundred versions of me the way I looked fifteen years ago. "
6 " There was no use in fighting. He’d lost. There are so many losses in parenting, strung together over many years. "
7 " He considered rolling over and simply ignoring his son. There should be a rule in parenting that you get to do that once every fiscal year. If you skip a year, it carries over— like airline miles or paid time off. "
8 " But honestly, isn’t that adulthood in a summary? Constant feelings of pure, overwhelming dread? "
