Meg Gitlin

“His wife had always claimed he expected too much of her, but the truth was quite different and far more damaging. He expected too little, and he always had.”
― Patricia Finn, The Golden Boy

“Loving a dog is proof alone that actions speak louder than words. You exist together, a back-and-forth, a give-and-take, as fluid and reliable as the lap of a wave along a shoreline. You sleep together, eat together, walk together, love together, and your commitment to each other never has to be stated. It just is. You get to know each other through living, the careful observation of two beings who want to understand.”
― Isabel Klee, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

“And now he knew why. Because to say anything real was to say things that nobody wanted to know. Or if they wanted to know, they would not care in the right way. Or even understand. It was a private thing, to be alive. He understood this now.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

“You push and you push into different corners of your mind, your body, thinning out your fears until they practically disappear altogether. Doubts just become anxiety, anxiety becomes stress, stress becomes a bad day. And bad days we can deal with, bad days pass, bad days don’t mean you’re with the wrong person. They’re just bad days.”
― Isabel Klee, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About