Abby

“Grief isn't something you can feel every moment. You can't be sad all the time—life goes on, even if you are nine and your life has been shattered, even if nothing will ever be the same again.”
― Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

“It's hard for a man to get out of his own way.”
― Sofia Montrone, Nymph

“Once I stopped being angry, I’d have to start being sad. I wanted to feel only that my friends were terrible, careless people. I knew that they loved me. People who love you do not, however, exclusively behave in your best interest. Still, in the whole time we’d been friends, none of us had ever acted with the express purpose of hurting each other.”
― Sonia Feldman, Girl's Girl

“There are only a few times in life when we think we are going to live forever. And I think one of them is when we are with our friends, laughing, eating, looking each other in the eye. —Mary Ruefle, “Dear Friends”
― Sonia Feldman, Girl's Girl: A Novel