Marian

“If we could identify our last times as easily as our first times, thousands of moments would be lived more intensely.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband

“believe in nothing but a woman’s capacity to survive disappointment”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“I would drape my own soul over her body to protect her from eyes like mine.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“Avery had previously thought love was built on large, visible gestures, but a marriage turned out to be the accrual of ordinary, almost inconsequential, acts of daily devotion—washing the mugs left in the sink before bed, taking the time to run up or downstairs to kiss each other quickly before one left the house, cutting up an extra piece of fruit to share—acts easy to miss, but if ever gone, deeply missed.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters