Katie Dryden

“If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere.”
“That’s where I am, Rafe. Nowhere.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness

“Love didn’t end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn’t command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness

“And then one day you will look for you in the mirror and you’ll no longer be able to identify yourself—you’ll only see everyone else. You’ll know that you did what they wanted you to do. You will have assimilated. And you will hate yourself for it, because it will be too late.”
― Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing

“But do we really think about it deeply or do we just ultimately do what we're supposed to do? What our parents want us to do? What society wants us to do?”
― Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing