Nicholl McIntyre

“Shesheshen asked, "What was it? What did you both want so badly?"

Homily answered, "You.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“just loneliness, loneliness at their respective outsets that colored everything else; or proximity, or passion; or hurting each other, or watching both their children leave the nest, or deciding to keep coming home to each other at the end of the day. Closeness and distance at the same time, antipathy and affinity, love and exhaustion. The way time moves, glacial and breakneck, the way two people fit together in a bed, in the hours after their son is born and the hours before his wedding.”
― Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

“It was a cliché to be this person; she got bored just thinking about it, the sadness over nothing, the fact that she was resentful of the easiest life in the world. And yet she couldn’t help herself.”
― Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

“You were supposed to want that; she knew this. You were supposed to want everything for your kid and the dregs for yourself.”
― Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was