Billy

“It’s just that, it’s not about the monster at all, really. It’s about people. No one wants to be the one to do things differently, because this is just life up here. It’s our culture. And us kids go along with it, because this is the world we live in. And we’ve been warned our whole lives to keep our mouths freaking shut.”
― Jimmy Juliano, Dead Eleven

“Something my dad says...He says you end up marrying the one you don't understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“That’s what a relationship is, right? Two people helping each other make a better version of themselves. Or I guess that’s what it should be.”
― Tim Murphy, Speech Team

“You might be left to distract or soothe yourself with the outlier possibility that the other person had been kidnapped or struck by a car or lightning, or had perhaps inadvertently fallen into a giant hole in the ground on their way to you. But mostly you would just be thrown back on yourself, left with the extra-ness of your own anticipation, time, and energy that suddenly had no container. The moment felt existential, as though all your life you’d been showing up to find people who weren’t there and had never had any intention of being there.”
― Tim Murphy, Speech Team