Lizzy Stewart > Quotes

“Sometimes I take a step that splits me in two, into the woman who is walking and another woman who steps back, to watch. I wonder what I look like, do I look like an adult with an adult life?”
― Lizzy Stewart, Walking Distance

“To be a Woman and a pedestrian in the city can be combative and exhausting, but sometimes it reminds me that I am in charge and that I will propel myself forward, always forward.”
― Lizzy Stewart, Walking Distance

“Suddenly I could enact the things I had no words for, make decisions without pause. For me, it felt more important to be articulate on the page. These images would outlast me. It mattered less and less to me that I didn't know how to sparkle at a dinner party because, at home, in my room, I was attempting to communicate the truth as I felt it.”
― Lizzy Stewart, Alison

“I left school four months after we met, knowing that we would, surely, get married within the year. It wasn’t a smart decision but no one tried to talk me out of it. My parents adored him. He was nice. I was fast-tracking my route to ordinary life. It made sense; an ordinary life seem like the right thing to do.”
― Lizzy Stewart, Alison