Sweetest Coma Again

“We did our secret hand gesture before we drove off. A ridiculously silly ritual he’d introduced in my first month working for him. The gesture consisted of three fist bumps, followed by interlocking and grinding our knuckles together, where he said G, and I said force.”
― Annella Savo, Born to Make You Smile

“How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

“By early evening, the sun had started to set, and glorious swirls of orange and pink painted the sky in that extra special way that happened at the end of summer. A melancholic reminder that another summer was soon passing by, and the bittersweet transition of seasons awaited us.”
― Annella Savo, Born to Make You Smile

“But it's lonely. Regardless of the fact that I've been on my own most of my life, there is something about being physically near someone but unable to connect that is more isolating than actually being alone.”
― Emmerson Hoyt, September Doves