This is a great character driven novel.
He wanted the children to remain uncomplicated with each other, though he knew it was futile. Parenting adults wasn't at all like parenting kids, when the whole merry band was inclined to believe you, just because. p. 42
All four Posts held their breath simultaneously, each wishing for the moment to last. Families were nothing more than hope cast out in a wide net, everyone wanting only the best. Even the poor souls who had children in an attempt to rescue a dying marriage were doing so out of a misguided hopefulness. p.269
There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self so many years ago, and to make the same decision. Marriages, like ships, needed steering, and steady hands at the wheel. p. 292
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