Shannon Debest

“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Some nights, I wake up knowing he is anxious. He is across the world in another woman's arms and the years have spread us like dandelion seeds, sanding down the edges of our jigsaw parts that used to only fit each other”
― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage: Poems

“When I hear what I have written out loud, the cliches hang in the air between us like bad breath”
― Sarah Kay

“There was no secret I did not tell him, there was no moment we did not share. We didn't grow up, we grew in; like ivy wrapping, molding each other into perfect yins and yangs”
― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage: Poems