Rachel Carter

“As I tore myself from you
I heard a weeping sound
You thread a needle
to darn the hole I left
and embroider a new plan”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“Summer is a gentleman: slowly warming the earth at length before undressing her in the fall.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“What makes you an adult? he said & I said it's mainly a height requirement & the willingness to keep quiet when people say stupid things.
—Adult Club”
― Brian Andreas, Theories of Everything

“Of course, active alcoholics love hearing about the worst cases; we cling to stories about them. Those are the true alcoholics: the unstable and the lunatic; the bum in the subway drinking from the bottle; the red-faced salesman slugging it down in a cheap hotel. Those alcoholics are always a good ten or twenty steps farther down the line than we are, and no matter how many private pangs of worry we harbor about our own drinking, they always serve to remind us that we’re okay, safe, in sufficient control. Growing up, whatever vague definition of alcoholism I had centered around the crazy ones—Eliza’s mother, Lauren’s father’s ex-wife, the occasional drunken parent of a friend. Alcoholics like that make you feel so much better: you can look at them and think, But my family wasn’t crazy; I’m not like that; I must be safe. When you’re drinking, the dividing line between you and real trouble always manages to fall just past where you stand.”
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story