Chara

“This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.”
― Suzan Colon

“And then once in the music storage room. It was cold. The room was small with thin gray carpet and I cried after in my bed thinking of how sad the violins looked alone in the corner. It was embarrassing to have sex in front of the wrong things, especially a violin, which was so dignified at every angle”
― Alison Espach, The Adults

“You know," my father said sprinkling nutmeg on his brandy Alexander, "if you sniff too much nutmeg, you could die."

"You can die from anything, really," my mother said "You can die from eating too many apricots."

"How many apricots?" I said, afraid that the World's Most Pathetic Death could happen to me.”
― Alison Espach, The Adults

“We could love and not be suckers. We could dream and not be losers. It was such a beautiful time. Everything was possible because we didn't know anything yet.”
― Hilary Winston