To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change.


“It hurts in an unexpected way, like doing yoga for the first time in a long while and realizing you can’t bend the way you thought you could; a new soreness.”
― Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
― Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

“She was the only one in the family who knew how to operate a camera, which means she took the photo herself. She liked the tangibility of memory.”
― Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
― Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

“It is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save us.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People

“I stood holding the note with that funny little abandoned feeling one gets a million times a day in a domestic setting. I could have cried, but why? It’s not like I need to dish with my husband about every little thing; that’s what friends are for. Harris and I are more formal, like two diplomats who aren’t sure if the other one has poisoned our drink. Forever thirsty but forever wanting the other one to take the first sip.”
― All Fours
― All Fours

“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
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