A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONGThere is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGOf all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGWomen are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGDo you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
ERICA JONGIf you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGOur empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONG