Mallory

“You know the advice about how you should always play tennis with people better than you? When I'm talking to you, I'm a funnier and smarter version of myself because you're funny and smart.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

“Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“If you think about it, most of us have very little choice about what we’re going to become or who we’re going to love, or what place on earth chooses us, becoming home. All we can do is go when we’re called, and pray we’ll still be taken in.”
― Paula McLain, When the Stars Go Dark

“Was he a content man, doing the things he liked alone? Or was he a lonely man making the best out of what he had? Alone, or lonely?”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club