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“Jesus fucking Christ, don’t have a kid or get married because you’re worried about being alone,’ she said, rubbing my back. I sat upright in my chair and she held me by my shoulders. ‘Be alone, Jen. You know how to be alone without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is? Do you know how much I wish I could do that? It’s a wonderful thing you’ve got going on there.’ Avi came into the kitchen and put the kettle”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material

“Feeling the absence of someone’s company and the absence of their love are two different things.”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material

“You wake up with someone one too many mornings and you realize that any magic you'd seen was magic you'd made.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“How beautiful is the night air! This placid dryness. This un-insistent chill. It’s made for naked skin and revelations.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary