Suzanne

“One of the many qualities she and her mother shared was a mutual love for an event concluded. It was an inclination she fought all her life. She loved a party best when it was over and the house had been restored to order and she could sit in the quiet and replay the evening. Too often, she looked forward to the end of something-to beginning the remembering-more than the thing itself.”
― Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, Good Company

“Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“That whole thing about how something that doesn't kill you serves only to make you stronger is one of the biggest lies ever told. Sometimes a thing happens and it breaks you, makes you weaker, and there ain't no getting back to the way it was. Sometimes it's physical. Sometimes it's mental or
emotional.”
― Jason Mott, People Like Us

“Memory is a sieve that catches only the most important moments. The insignificant details of daily life don’t stick; instead, they flow through the sieve. Then there are experiences that are unusual, set apart from the everyday, that carry an emotional charge. These we often hold on to, turning them over and over.”
― Amy Griffin, The Tell: A Memoir