“No one is all bad. No one is all good. We live as equals in the murky gray between.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
“Listen. It's okay. We asked for so much didn't we? We wanted to touch the stars, and look at what we did. There's nothing more we could ask from the universe, of this God you always talk about, than that. So it's okay. It is fine. Okay, Joan? For me, as long as you all know what you meant to me, it all worked out fine.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“an ask, for suffering. It was the scariest thing about being a woman. It was hardwired, ageless, the part that knew you could have the good without the hurt, but it wouldn’t be nearly as exquisite.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
“I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. Like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. But that’s not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then disappears like a bubble.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
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