Home > Work > The Lies That Bind
1 " We may not get do-overs in life, but we can always have fresh starts and new beginnings. "
― Emily Giffin , The Lies That Bind
2 " I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.’ "
3 " Second chances are rare and wonderful. "
4 " Women in the twenty-first century (which still sounds so funny to my ears) have options. We can marry or not marry; have children or not have children; be stay-at-home mothers or have careers. So yes, I told her, I want to get married, and yes, I want to find a life mate sooner rather than later, but that didn’t make me a bad feminist. It just made me determined to have it all— "
5 " invaded. "
6 " That nothing can be real when marred with so many lies. "
7 " After all, you reach the mundane, comfortable moments only when a relationship is working. When it’s not working, the passion morphs into something twisted and dark. Drama. Jealousy. A never-ending power struggle. "
8 " He tells me they do, but it’s out of service. I feel a wave of relief, until he hands me a cordless phone from behind the bar and says I’m welcome to use it if it’s not long distance. I stare down at the receiver, thinking that this is precisely why Scottie, my best friend since the first grade, told me to stay in and not drink. Batten down the hatches, he had coached me from our hometown of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, explaining that I wasn’t ready to be tested by a buzz "
9 " his face serious. "
