Emily

“You Never Know Where A Conversation Is Going To Go

Said Ricky to me one day, "Why is it you
don't have a tail?"

Well, I just don't. Maybe once upon a time
I had one, but not anymore.

"What happened? Did you have an accident?

No, no. Things change. Sometimes. Over
time.

"You mean, maybe sometime I won't get a walk,
I won't get dinner? I won't get hugs? That's
scary, plain scary."

No, no, it takes a really long time. In
fact, some things change, over time, and
some don't.

"Well, how do I know what's what?"

Day by day, Ricky. You find out.
Has anything changed that troubles you?

"Actually, nothing. I like everything a lot,
every day."

Well, see? Just keep on liking things.
And praying.

"I don't know anything about that."

Yes you do. Every time you wake up and
love your life and the world, you're
praying, my dear boy. I'm sure of it.”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

“During the blue night you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, an apprehension of illness, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone. This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days, the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“I wanted to explain that I didn't know how much I was allowed to feel about it, or how much of what I felt at the time I was still allowed to feel in retrospect.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“And because we were in Southern California-in Hollywood even-there was no history for us. There were no books or traditions telling us how we could turn out or what anything meant.”
― Eve Babitz