Siobhan

“It’s in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

“Sometimes I mistake presence for fondness. Even though those who are absent are normally the ones I love most. Perhaps because so many in my life have said, “I’m here, aren’t I?” when I’ve asked to feel their love.”
― Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet

“At the underwhelming Thanksgiving table, my sister stood up and said she felt like a miscalculation. Worse, like the latest season of a sitcom that had petered out seasons ago—everyone knew the show was intolerable but watched anyway. If that wasn’t a metaphor for the news in America, she said, then what was.”
― Nora Lange, Us Fools

“We are afraid of being responsible for our own lives.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed