Tara

“The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things you weren't imaginative enough to dream up.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Isn't it strange how the world works sometimes? It's never a matter of time, but a matter of timing.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“It was a good night.

The kind of good night that I hadn't had in awhile. The kind of good that stuck to your bones, thick and warm, and coated your soul in light. Good food, with good friends.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“...It felt like permission.

The kind I hadn't let myself have for [six months]. The kind of permission I'd been waiting for, as I sat alone in [her] apartment in grief, welled up so high, it felt suffocating.

The permission I thought I'd given myself.

But it hadn't been permission to cry. It had been a command to be strong. To be ok.

I told myself over and over, I had to be ok.

And finally, finally! Someone gave me permission to come undone.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip