Jen

“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.”
― Katie Yee, 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.”
― Katie Yee, 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.”
― Alison Espach, 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.”
― Miranda July, All Fours