Ally Tuttelman

“One day and it will surprise you how soon this day will come, but one day you will wake up and feel good. It won’t last long, but then you’ll have another day where you barely remember this abjection, and another, and another, until that’s just your life. But for now, it will be hard. This is the part that’s hard.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

“How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other’s rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries. The temporariness made it all the more important to do the right thing—to follow the right leads.”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or

“It’s really starting to piss me off that the division of our entwined lives can be like, a non-event for you and an enormous administrative chore for me.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

“Even if we handle it as well as possible, I thought, it’s still going to be terrible.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually