Brooke Doom

“What’s she crying for?” asked Linda. “Don’t know,” I said. I knew.”
― Nancy Tucker, The First Day of Spring

“and I didn’t know where else to direct my anger, except at people who seemed more content with their lives than I was.”
― Madeleine Gray, Green Dot: A Novel

“In reality, marriage didn’t calm me down. I realized at the very moment we said “I do” that my husband could still divorce me. Then I hoped that he would want to buy a house with me, and then have a child with me, certain that these acts would be more solid than a contract signed at city hall or a promise made before God. I was constantly awaiting the next step. I discovered a world of proofs of love, with commitment everywhere and love nowhere. And fifteen years after our first date, I still sleep just as poorly.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband

“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse