To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change.
“It’s like you said, you can drive yourself crazy thinking about these things. The other lives you could have had.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“At any time before that, I’d have been afraid of making a spectacle of myself. But I no longer cared what people thought about my subpar singing voice or about my love life.”
― Crush
― Crush
“Honey, there’s never been a me or a you before,” he replied. “This works however we say it works.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“I’d roam around the city and either I’d take myself out or eat with a friend. All food tasted delicious. I suddenly loved beer. I walked twenty thousand steps a day, wore dresses instead of jeans, and scribbled notes on scraps of paper. I was in love with the world and felt like it was in love with me. I wanted to kiss everyone I saw. I wouldn’t, probably, but now who knew?”
― Crush
― Crush
“Now she knows what it feels like to be beyond the traditional plot points of a life, to sit on a chair in an empty room feeling like there is nothing more than this solemn march forward. Yet, there must be something else. She is suddenly gripped with such curiosity it feels primal. She needs to know: After the war, after the marriage, after the suicide—what happens next?”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
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