Bridget

“You don’t have to have been friends with someone to be old friends with them later.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You

“Always it was the same, Furlong thought; always they carried mechanically on without pause, to the next job at hand. What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“I thought of a friend in La who'd said recently of her own daughter, "It feels wrong to give her all this happiness and confidence when we know what is coming. Seventh grade is going to hit like a wall. It feels like fattening a pig for slaughter." But what was the alternative? Starving the pig?”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You

“I emptied my drawers of jeans and cute little Anthropologie sweaters that now looked absurdly small, like they’d belonged to a doll. These had all felt so expensive and important when I bought them, and had in their own way become a part of my identity. But becoming a mother alters every inch of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart. This makes sense, of course: How could the arrival of a baby not change these things? Yet somehow I wasn’t prepared for the idea that I would have to shed, essentially, almost every item of clothing that had defined me for the past two decades.”
― Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood