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

“Compromise...is simply
When we change the question
To fit the answer...”
― Merrit Malloy, Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old

“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