Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn't necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.

About Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings, and The Female Persuasion. She is a co-director of the BookEnds writing fellowship program at Stony Brook Southampton.

More quotations from Meg Wolitzer

I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Uncoupling

It's funny how you can go for a long time in life not needing someone, and then you meet them and you suddenly need them all the time.

—Meg Wolitzer in Belzhar

The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

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When do I stop? When I'm twenty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tells you how long you should keep doing something before you give up forever.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

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I let myself have feelings for you despite not knowing how this would end.

—Siobhan Vivian in Not That Kind Of Girl

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Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it’s becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Peace, Locomotion

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You know how it feels right before a tornado hits? I mean when the sky’s still clear, but the wind’s starting to cool off and change direction. You know something’s coming, but you don’t always know what. That’s how things feel to me right now.

—P.C. Cast in Betrayed

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Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

—David Wilkerson

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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

—Anna Sewell

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