Laura Bopp

“It's peculiar how no-words can be better than words. Silence can say more than noise, in the same way that a person's absence can occupy even more space than their presence did" -Suzy”
― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

“Propose a theory to explain one of there eternal mysteries: Mona Lisa's smile, crop circles, or Velveeta.

Here is a theory of love:
you find a sister, you gain
a brother; you lose
a sister, you lose
a brother; you lose a cat,
you find a girl, you kiss
a girl, you find the cat,
you hope
that there is nothing left to lose, and
all there is, is there to find.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“Being seen is more about the ears than the eyes”
― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

“She had become unmoored from the present, loose and untethered, her mind rolling back into her memories, rolling forward into the future, anticipating, and then dropping again into this torturous, unbearable present.”
― Laura Ruby