Sarah

“It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. A speck on the slender child grows into a gross deformity in the adult, inescapable, ragged at the edges.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“She yearned to be left alone with her interior life rather than to explain it.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, A Summer Affair

“But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Never Change

“she loves everyone else here enough that she is willing to let them see all of who she is in this moment.”
― Mat Johnson, Loving Day