“I will live for love, and the rest will take care of itself.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
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“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.”
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“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”
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Mallory’s 2025 Year in Books
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