Curtis Sittenfeld

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I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

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Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places

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She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it

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if he didn't fully understand where I came from, he understood who I was now -- he knew how well done I liked my steak, knew the color of my toothbrush, the expression I made when I realized I'd forgotten to roll up my car window before it rained

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There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends