Susan Sharp

“most marriages are neither heavenly nor hellish, but vaguely purgatorial.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“The sudden shock of safety makes me feel like I’m going to die from my heart hammering its relief into my chest.”
― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“The sky has turned the color of sandy red clay: orange cream. The heat of the day at its heaviest: the insects awoken from their winter slumber. I cannot bear the world.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“Those girls are on the road to trouble,” I heard an older woman say about us one night, as we were staggering down the street drunk—and that woman was absolutely right. What she didn’t understand, though, is that trouble is what we wanted. Oh, our youthful needs! Oh, the deliciously blinding yearnings of the young—which inevitably take us right to the edges of cliffs, or trap us in cul-de-sacs of our design.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls