1.
The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.
Carol Grace
2.
There can be no great love without exclusivity.
Carol Grace
3.
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
Carol Grace
4.
Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.
Carol Grace
5.
The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
Carol Grace
6.
a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.
Carol Grace
7.
Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.
Carol Grace
8.
it was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.
Carol Grace
9.
I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.
Carol Grace
10.
Hate is funny. Love isn't. Love can kill you. Hate can keep you alive.
Carol Grace
11.
I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.
Carol Grace
12.
You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.
Carol Grace
13.
when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.
Carol Grace