Ariel Simon

“But I think, maybe, I won’t look back at what you highlighted, because I won’t need to. I want to read all the way to the end with you.”
― Mary Ann Rivers, The Story Guy

“My life is cozy, but I'm starting to let myself think I want something wet and aching stabbed through it. I want something substantial. I want to gorge myself. Excess.”
― Mary Ann Rivers, The Story Guy

“If I’m broken, the break will be clean and easily mended. If he breaks, I’m not sure if there will be enough pieces to approximate. I can afford to go along with what he thinks will protect him. I can have this, and I can give him what he thinks he needs, even if he may deserve better.”
― Mary Ann Rivers, The Story Guy

“Story guys are like life highlighters. Your life is all these big blocks of gray text, and then a story guy comes in with a big ol’ paragraph of neon pink so that when you flip back through your life, you can stop and remember all the important and interesting places.”
― Mary Ann Rivers, The Story Guy