To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once.
“I’ve never been a fan of foods I didn’t eat in my childhood.”
― Three Days in June
― Three Days in June
“I wonder if maybe all you do is meet people and lose them and your smile fades the further you go because you have to carry the space they leave. Maybe it all just turns into old pictures on a bookshelf”
― The People We Keep
― The People We Keep
“That’s something you forget when you’ve been on your own awhile: those married-couple conversations that continue intermittently for weeks, sometimes, branching out and doubling back and looping into earlier strands like a piece of crochet work.”
― Three Days in June
― Three Days in June
“I didn’t want to be saved from myself. Nobody does! All we want is permission to stand there naked and be our damned selves.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“Isn’t that what any relationship is, in the end? Meeting someone and wanting to be with that person more than with anyone else, and trying to make it work.”
― Bride
― Bride
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