Tracie Wallace

“We are and we aren’t. We try and we fail. We tell the truth and then we lie. We want to be a part of things so badly that we’ll pretend to be anyone to get into the room. And pretend to be someone else just to stay there. We want to be seen and we want people to guess. We want them to understand. We want to be forgiven. We forgive ourselves. We start again.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“There was that word again. Curate. “And there is a cost to the people looking at that photograph and thinking that’s how their lives are supposed to be.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“I was still trying to figure out what we all lost in broadcasting our lives for everyone else’s consumption. Before we took the time, you know, to figure out what we wanted our lives to add up to.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“So you’re saying everyone is a liar?” “I’m saying it’s the way of the world now to display yourself. And there is no putting that genie back in the bottle,” he said. “And some people integrate it well, they find social media connective. But for the rest of us, it’s a different story. Literally. And no one’s talking about it. The cost of curating your life.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine