Melanie Mccarty

“In the spaces between words, my mind can go all sorts of places. Dr. Michael once taught me how to get out of them, but that was a long time ago. Like, another life.”
― Holly Brown, Don't Try to Find Me

“I push him to the verge of snapping and then he draws back, a man perpetually at the edge of a cliff.”
― Holly Brown, Don't Try to Find Me

“Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone.

What happened in their first five minutes?

Time stopped.”
― Laura Dave, London is the Best City in America

“I might not know every step of my journey, but standing still wouldn’t accomplish a thing. Sometimes you just had to take a step, whatever the direction, and see what happened.”
― Jean Brashear, The Goddess of Fried Okra