Wendy Fullam

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“She thought men were saviors...
...And she looked for more in them than what they were...
Only to rescue herself from those she wished would rescue her...

And isn't that the most tragic lie...
The lie where we tell what we wished were true and believe it...?

She had an artificial memory, a prosthesis to a past that never was...
She was like a party that no one ever went to...
Like a cure...without a disease...

And isn't that the greatest fear of all...to be ready with the answers
to questions that no one asks anymore?”
― Merrit Malloy, Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old

“He thinks marriage will make our love more real
when marriage will only make our love more necessary.

Marriage (Often) is just a publicity stunt
a social security,
Yes, I will stay with you
BUT you don't have to marry me
Marriage is not a payment or something you can 'give' me
It is not something that you can do 'for' me only 'with me”
― Merrit Malloy, The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye