Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth Keane
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The thing is, Peter, grown-ups don't know what they're doing any better than kids do. That's the truth.”
“We repeat what we don’t repair,”
“They'd both learned that a memory is a fact that has been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that room or anyone who was standing on the grass beneath that telephone pole.”
“There was no real way for a person to try something out, see if he liked it...because you try it and try it and try it a little longer and next thing it's who you are.”
“She'd learned that the beginning of one's life mattered the most, that life was top-heavy that way.”
“...and sometimes when he watched her - searching for something in her bag, or peeling an apple with her knuckle guiding the blade - he felt a shiver of panic that he'd almost not met her.”
“And he’d figured out that the fun was often not the thing itself—the party, the keg stand, the naked running into the duck pond—but the endless talking about it after, the reliving and describing, and laughing about it in front of people who wished they’d been there. Used to be he was one of the kids listening, one of the kids who missed everything, but now, since college, since Kate, he was in the stories.”
“Kate thought about their wedding day as a conclusion to something, where he thought about it as a beginning. Rising action versus falling action. They were reading different books.”
“It wasn't that she didn't love him, he knew. It was that she loved him so much that it frightened her, loved him so much that she worried she might have to protect herself from it. He tried to let her know that he'd figured that out, finally, that there was no need to explain, but then he realized that she might not know it herself.”
“Now she wondered if presence was the thing her new neighbor had, if it was something a person had to be born with and could never be learned.”
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