Mary

“You can never replace it. The good news is you do learn to live without it. You miss it. You want it. You hang out with a bunch of other crazy people who feel the same way and you live with it. And eventually, you start to sound like a cloying self-help book, like me.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“A wife", he says, "should have no secrets from her husband."
"I don't have any secrets," I tell him.
"The ribbon."
"The ribbon is not a secret; it's just mine.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“My thoughts were my own, and I was exasperated to have them either surprised or drawn from me against my will.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons

“A young couple strolls by, the adoration of one bouncing off the tolerance of the other.”
― David Sedaris, Calypso