Sophia D

“The second people felt alone, I noticed, usually in the space between things—leaving a therapy session, at a red light, standing in a checkout line, riding the elevator—they picked up devices and ran away from that feeling. In a state of perpetual distraction, they seemed to be losing the ability to be with others and losing their ability to be with themselves.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“It only took two hundred and fourty days
seven hours
twenty-six minutes
and eighteen seconds

But I can finally say it:
I'm over you.

I no longer thing about the way your hips move when you walk
the way your lips move when you read
the way you always took your glove off before you held my hand so you could feel me

I've completly forgotten about texts in the middle of the night, saying you love me, miss me
inside jokes no one else thinks are funny
songs that made you want to pull your car over and kiss me immediately

I can't remember
how your voice sounds
how your mouth tastes
how your bedroom looks when the sun first comes up.

I can't recall
exactly what you said that day
what I was wearing
how long it took me to start crying.

It only took two hundred and fourty days
seven hours
twenty-six minutes
and eighteen seconds
to wipe you from my memory.

But if you said you wanted me again
today
or tomorrow
or two hundred and fourty days
seven hours
twenty-six minutes
and eighteen seconds from now,
I'm sure it would all come back to me.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone

“For Rita, joy isn’t pleasure; it’s anticipatory pain.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“The hiccup at this stage is that change involves the loss of the old and the anxiety of the new. Although often maddening for friends and partners to witness, this hamster wheel is part of the process; people need to do the same thing over and over a seemingly ridiculous number of times before they’re ready to change.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed