Meredith

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

“I remember crawling to the table, how it was now a pile of soot, then dipping my fingers into it. My nails blackening with my country. My country dissolving on my tongue. I remember cupping the ash and writing the words live live live on the foreheads of the three women sitting in the room. How the ash eventually hardened into ink on a blank page. How there's ash on this very page. How there's enough for everyone.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I know you don’t like to see upset by things. But it’s not a sign of weakness to have feelings.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“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