The Seven Year Slip

if you don’t fit in, fool everyone until you do.

I’m nothing if not a child of consistency and routine

“You are you, and that’s a lovely person to be.”

always pair red wines with meats and whites with everything else . .

This kind of magic is heartache,

‘Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.’ ”

I just liked plans. I liked sticking to them.

In the end, Vera had wanted a family, and Analea had wanted the world.

She told me to pay attention—that the heartbreak was important, too.

She loved her so much, she began to call her “my sunshine.”