A review by ifelearns
Goodbye Without Leaving by Laurie Colwin

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Hmmmm......  I preferred happy all the time but this was still nice to read
Favourite quotes: 

• “I should get the Nobel Prize because I’m pregnant,” I said. “Women are so wonderful. Aren’t you jealous?”

• “We are constantly living the history of our own lives, you dig? You used to be your old self, now you’re a new self, and someday you’ll be some other self and what’s now will be your old self."

• "The days of Little Franklin’s babyhood seemed haloed in fuzzy golden light."

• "It was a cloudy, windy day in early fall. As we walked through Little Italy on the way back to what was now our apartment, it seemed to me that, if I looked back, I would see my unmarried past behind me, gray as a floating cloud. Before me stood the dreaded future: I was now an honest woman."

• "The problem with you is that you don’t want a real relationship. Because your mother never left you alone, you’re afraid that, if someone really loves you, they’ll consume you. Besides, you don’t want to be loved for your real self because your mother doesn’t love you for your real self and you feel your real self isn’t worth it, right?” As usual, I had just sighed."

• “You’re hopeless,” Johnny said. “Life is not about who’s on whose side.”
  
  
• “I Was a White Shakette for the FBI,” I said".

• "Wash the blackface off, kiddo. We’re invited to a dinner party.”