Meredith

“I loved when he was available to me like this, when our relationship was like a Word document which we were writing and editing together, or a long private joke which nobody else could understand. I liked to feel that he was my collaborator. I liked to think of him waking up at night and thinking of me.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“There is no post. There’s only trauma.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“It hurt the way the sunshine or a cool drink of water hurts when you hate yourself.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“We comfort ourselves that perhaps the phantom limbs of their potential tingle enough to tell them that they missed their opportunity to rise from their comfortable circumstances and become the real people that only true adversity and fear can make you into. Genes can lie dormant, but they don't dilute even the recessive ones stand backstage in full dress, waiting for their turn to go on.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise