Lana

“what a complete mindfuck it is to lose the shelter of your marriage, but also how expansive the view is without that shelter, how big the sky is—”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“For to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“I tell myself not to count the years ahead in which she might never again come, but rather cherish the days she has given me of her own free will, when she lowered her species’ instinctive guard against humans, and shared the beauty and mystery of her presence in silent and graceful companionship. I will remember her leaving, but I will always know that before she did, she always, first, looked back.”
― Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare: A Memoir

“If years ago someone had said, your husband will do X, or your husband will say Y, what would I have done? First of all, and crucially: I wouldn’t have believed it. Second of all: If I had believed it, I would’ve changed paths—turned back to page 22, flipped ahead to page 41. If I’d been convinced, finally, of its truth, its inevitability, I would’ve chosen a different way.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful