Kayla Maiuri

“I didn’t have any expectations when I came to New York—just the misty, haloed idea that it was where true life waited, where it was not absurd to be alone.”
― Kayla Maiuri, Mother in the Dark

“I often wondered if there was a girl somewhere who shared this feeling of detachment from those she loved, from herself. Was there another girl who looked and talked like me, who performed the same actions as me, maybe at the exact same moment? Another girl drinking a glass of skim milk sitting cross-legged on the pantry floor alone, eating handfuls of baking chocolate? Another girl looking out the passenger-side window of her father’s truck, watching the raindrops race down the glass, feeling bad when they hit the bottom and their shape? If she did exist, I never met her.”
― Kayla Maiuri, Mother in the Dark