Kevin O'Brien

“He squeezed her hand three times quickly, their Morse code, I love you. She looked up at him again—confirmation, that loaded click that made this eye contact different from the fleeting glances they gave each other over the children’s heads in the kitchen in the mornings—and then she lifted her face to kiss him. That, too, felt as familiar to him as breathing.”
― Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

“The thing you’re afraid of is never the thing you should be afraid of.”
― Katherine Center, The Love Haters

“The thing that nobody warned you about adulthood was the number of decisions you’d have to make, the number of times you’d have to depend on an unreliable gut to point you in the right direction, the number of times you’d still feel like an eight-year-old, waiting for your parents to step in and save you from peril.”
― Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

“The funny thing about the internet is that it’s basically a collective hallucination. If you don’t join in, it doesn’t exist. I mean, it does … but in another very real way, it doesn’t.”
― Katherine Center, The Love Haters