Madeline Louden

“Many people choose solohood due to an ethical or emotional aversion to treating people like territory.”
― Amy Gahran, Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life

“Everything that made Daisy burn, made me burn. Everything I loved about the world, Daisy loved about the world. Everything I struggled with, Daisy struggled with. We were two halves. We were the same. In that way you're only the same with a few other people. In that way that you don't even feel like you have to say your own thoughts because you know the other person is already thinking them. How could I be around Daisy Jones and not be mesmerized by her? Not fall in love with her?

I couldn't.
I just couldn't.

But Camila meant more. That's just the deepest truth. My family meant more to me. Camila meant more to me. Maybe, for a little while there, Camila wasn't the person I was the most drawn to.

Or...
...
...
Maybe Camila wasn't the person I was the most in love with. At that time, I don't know. You can't...maybe she wasn't. But she was always the person I loved the most. She was always the person I would choose.

It is Camila, for me. Always.

Passion is...it's fire. And fire is great, man. But we're made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I'll pick water every time. And I wanted Daisy to find her water. Because I couldn't be it (288-289).”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“business. I released a secret, not caring who in my family might abandon me, because I finally understood that keeping the secret was an act of abandoning myself.”
― Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

“The people in the relationship are more important than the relationship. Don’t treat people as things.”
― Amy Gahran, Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life