Tara Kay

“Admittedly, guilt can be my default setting. After a social gathering, I’m often left with a vague sense of wrongdoing that I try to pinpoint the source of. Had I laughed insensitively or slighted someone unintentionally? And I always feel accused in Nordstrom. The saleswomen look at my jeans and inexpensive haircut and I’m sure they’re thinking I’m about to slip a pair of earrings into my purse. I feel guilty when I eat white bread and when I don’t recycle.”
― Deb Caletti, He's Gone

“I knew something else, too: It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.”
― Deb Caletti, He's Gone

“I guess after all those years he had exhausted me. I never knew I was signing up for a battle, but I finally knew that he had won.”
― Deb Caletti, He's Gone

“There was no question that it was a necessary divorce, but that didn’t make it less painful. You don’t think it will hurt, leaving a marriage like that, do you? But it’s the same misguided thinking that makes people ask, after your mother dies, how old she was. If she was ninety, the bereavement isn’t supposed to be as crushing. But of course it is. Of course. There’s no equation for loss.”
― Deb Caletti, He's Gone