Kate Wu

“So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”
“Pretty much.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.”
― Diana Vreeland

“As we drove, I suddenly had a hideous memory of what a hideous thing marriage was for me at times--Those years with William. A familiarity so dense it filled up the room. Your throat almost clogged with knowledge of the other so that it seemed to practically press into your nostrils. The odor of the other's thoughts. The self consciousness of every spoken word. The slight flicker of an eyebrow slightly raised. The barely perceptible tilting of the chin, no one but the other would know what it meant but you could not be free living like that. Not ever. Intimacy became a ghastly thing.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

“This authority was why I had fallen in love with William. We crave authority. We do. No matter what anyone says, we crave that sense of authority. Of believing that in the presence of this person we are safe.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!