More Short Stories
11. It occurred to him that he loved the idea of being in a relationship more than he loved any person he’d actually been in a relationship with.
12. Her sister told her, “You don’t even know all the things that are wrong with you,” and she said, “No, trust me, I am all too aware,” but privately she wondered if there weren’t even more things.
13. “Look,” he said to the kids, ” the point of little league isn’t to win; it’s to try as hard as you can and lose anyway so you learn that no matter how much you want something there’s always someone better who deserves it more.”
14. She fell in love, for real this time, three times before breakfast.
15. “You don’t change,” she said, and he said, “I do change actually; I change all the time. They’re just subtle changes that maybe require a more sophisticated palette to appreciate.”
16. He didn’t trust anyone who looked better in photographs than they did in real life. He was working out a system where eventually he wouldn’t have to trust anybody.
17. “I never thought I could be this happy,” she imagined one day saying to someone.
18. It wasn’t so much what he said as how he said it, and why he said it, and what he didn’t say, and what he did, and what he didn’t do, and okay, also what he said.
19. “Tell me when the light turns green,” she said. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes. He didn’t tell her when the light turned green. Even after the long line of cars started honking, even after the other drivers pulled around and shouted at them through their windows, they sat in the car without moving, at the intersection on the way home from the hospital.
20. It occurred to her that she loved the idea of her husband and children and all of her friends and her job and her life. She loved the idea of everything.
