Joy Shak

“Time heals all wounds, they say. I’m here to tell you that time can wound you all on its own. In a long life, there is a singular moment when you know you’ve made more memories than any new ones you’ll ever make. That’s the moment your truest stories—the ones that made you the you that you became—are ever more in the front of your mind, as you begin to reach back for the you that you deemed best. So”
― Lynda Rutledge, West with Giraffes

“A long marriage is complicated. So complicated, in fact, that most people in one sometimes ask themselves: 'Am I still married because I'm in love, or just because I can't be bothered to let anyone else get to know me this well again?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“During the darkest days, a saying took hold in Kansas: “there is no god west of Salina.”
― Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

“IF MENOPAUSE WERE ON YELP it would have one star.”
― Jennifer Gunter, The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism