Maggie

“Grief was something that moved in and stayed. Maybe it moved from one side of the room to the other, farther away from the window, but it was always there.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope - hope was honest. Hope was good.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“It was the worst fact of parenthood, that what you did mattered so much more than anything you said.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“There's an expression in classical music. It goes, 'We went out to the meadow.' It's for those evenings that can only be described in that way: There were no walls, there were no music stands, there weren't even any instruments. There was no ceiling, there was no floor, we all went out to the meadow. It describes a feeling.
(Tom Waits quote)”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down