Sue Mcbride

“Why is it that we always remember that people forget;
but we always forget that they remember?

I used to remember...but I forgot!”
― Merrit Malloy, Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old

“Whatever we say
We're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know...
We are always telling each other
The truth
Even when
We're lying”
― Merrit Malloy, Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old

“It's amazing how many people will care about you
if only you would care about them, and
It's even more remarkable
how many people will care about you anyway”
― Merrit Malloy, The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye

“She thought men were saviors...
...And she looked for more in them than what they were...
Only to rescue herself from those she wished would rescue her...

And isn't that the most tragic lie...
The lie where we tell what we wished were true and believe it...?

She had an artificial memory, a prosthesis to a past that never was...
She was like a party that no one ever went to...
Like a cure...without a disease...

And isn't that the greatest fear of all...to be ready with the answers
to questions that no one asks anymore?”
― Merrit Malloy, Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old