Jennie

“Oh, Elna, how can you be with someone who loves you in spite of the very best things about you?”
― Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir

“My dad says he has doubts all the time, but he doesn't allow them to question that moment when he was nineteen.”
― Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir

“Not much of what I value in our lives is easy.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would have come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. And more often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to cease obsessing about sex; it intensifies their lust and their longing.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love