Mae Wood > Quotes

“the best beer for a woman to drink was whatever beer she damn well wanted to drink.”
― Mae Wood, Wildflower

“Come with me, Alice. Stay with me, explore with me, journey with me. Marry me. Because when the ground gives way under my feet again, I don’t want to have been the man who sent you pink roses, too afraid to buy the red ones that I wanted to give you. I don’t want to be the man who worked so long to prepare the perfect place for you that he spent all of his life waiting. I’m sick of waiting. Beyond full of it. Without you I am hollow.”
― Mae Wood, Genealogy

“Because the truth about losing someone you love? Time doesn’t heal those wounds. It doesn’t make it hurt less. It just makes it hurt less often.”
― Mae Wood, This Time Is Different

“Roses have thorns and honey has bees. It's the way of the world.”
― Mae Wood, Wildflower