Ari Eastman > Quotes

“Everyone wants a strong woman
until she actually stands up,
flexes her muscles,
projects her voice

Suddenly, she is too much.
She has forgotten her place.

You love those women
as ideas, fantasies

Not as breathing, living humans
threatening to be even better
than you could ever be.”
― Ari Eastman

“I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that’s okay.”
― Ari Eastman

“Your apologies hang heavy like the skeleton of the man I once thought I’d marry. I loved you more than I knew what to do with most days. But I do not know you now. And this stranger you’ve become makes my stomach hurt.”
― Ari Eastman, I Promised You I Wouldn't Write This

“You were messy and wild. You were flawed and bruised.”
― Ari Eastman, I Promised You I Wouldn't Write This

“It can be so easy sometimes.

When you stop thinking,

And I stop dreaming.

And we sit and laugh,

Let our fingers do the speaking.”
― Ari Eastman, I Promised You I Wouldn't Write This

“I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that’s okay.

Ari Eastman”
― Ari Eastman