Roberta Messina

“This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's a fucked-up way, like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it's a trap.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“It hurts not because she is a failure, but because he finally sees so.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“I'm not saying that you think about it all the time. It just leaves you different than it found you.”
― Tess Callahan

“He was so close she could almost hear the movement of his thoughts, the role of the tide; she had slipped inside his skin.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver