Lana

“Thank you for the pain you caused me, because that pain woke me up. It hurt enough to make me change.”
― 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

“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

“What is home but a passage
I'm writing & underlining every time I read it”
― Maggie Smith