Goodbye Without Leaving

“At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.”
― Laurie Colwin, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object

“How lucky, I thought, were people who had known from earliest childhood what they wanted to do. All the children in my grammar school, who said they wanted to be doctors, had grown up to become doctors. This was also the case apparently with firemen, veterinarians, songwriters, and race car drivers.

I had opted for a kind of pure experience, which, as Doo-Wah had pointed out, is not usually something you get paid for. I did not want to write a book about it. I did not want to write so much as an article. I wanted to be left alone with my experience and go on to the next thing, whatever that was.”
― Laurie Colwin, Goodbye Without Leaving

“You should have married a nice girl in her twenties so you can have dozens of babies,'Jane Louise said. 'Instead of the president of the Withered Crone Society.”
― Laurie Colwin, A Big Storm Knocked It Over

“There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.”
― Laurie Colwin

“Marriage, it turned out, was a series of small events.”
― Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time

“To be effortlessly yourself is a blessing, an ambrosia. It is like a few tiny little puffs of opium which lift you ever so slightly off the hard surface of the world.”
― Laurie Colwin, Goodbye Without Leaving