Mallory Lacy

“But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.”
― Atticus c

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming