Sue Mcbride

“There are some people
who would rather be right than happy,
as though making a point
was more fun than having a good time

These are the people
who will risk their lives to get the last laugh
even when it isn't funny”
― 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

“The Long Way Home

Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other?

Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?”
― Merrit Malloy, The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye

“The Thief who Couldn't Get Away

I knew a man who didn't come to see his children for years...
how inept a thief he was to rob from himself like that
...Ironically, his punishment for this
was that his children loved him anyway...and
it broke his heart”
― Merrit Malloy, The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye