Marie Gamble

“Sometimes people didn't understand that--Alice wasn't a writer, but she'd spent enough time sitting at dinner tables with novelists to understand that fiction was a myth. Fictional stories, that is. Maybe there were bad ones out there, but the good ones, the good ones--those were always true. Not the facts, not the rights and the lefts, not the plots, which could take place in outer space or in hell or anywhere in between, but the feelings. The feelings were the truth.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“What a very long time one had to be an adult, after rushing through childhood and adolescence.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“The thoughts that linger are the “If only” questions, like Who could I have become if I had finally done the things I always wanted to do? The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you WILL die, you must live NOW. Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands. You are the single biggest influence in your life. Your journey begins with the choice to get up, step out, and live. Fully.”
― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

“I was thinking about what Julian used to say about art, how it either makes you feel something or it doesn’t.”
― Emily Henry