Marilyn Lee Quotes

“Sweetheart, I know high school might not feel important, but it’s the foundation for the rest of your life.”

″‘Your mother’s home,’ he said, as if they couldn’t see her standing there in the doorway behind him.”

“Coming to her made him feel perfectly welcomed, perfectly at home, as he had never in his life felt before.”

″ ‘I am disappointed.” Marilyn’s head snaps up. ‘l thought you were different.’ What she means is: I thought you were better than other men. I thought you wanted better than that. ”

“When Nath had been born, then Lydia, Marilyn had not informed her mother, had not even sent a photograph. What was there to say? She and James had never discussed what her mother had said about their marriage that last day: it’s not right. She had not ever wanted to think of it again. So when James came home that night, she said simply, “My mother died.” Then she turned back to the stove and added, “And the lawn needs mowing,” and he understood: they would not talk about it.”

“It’s not right, Marilyn. It’s not right. ”

“What else have you been hiding?’’

“Of course it was possible for her: she had no husband. ”