“Is the air okay?" I texted.
"It hurts a little to breathe," my sister texted back. "But we're okay."
Jesus, I thought, is there a better and more succinct definition of grief than It hurts a little to breathe, but we're okay?”
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
"It hurts a little to breathe," my sister texted back. "But we're okay."
Jesus, I thought, is there a better and more succinct definition of grief than It hurts a little to breathe, but we're okay?”
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone. That was what had captured her in the charm shop, all those years ago. Then adulthood came, your choices solidifying, and you realize that everything you are had been set in motion years before. The rest was aftermath.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. I could write “I don’t know” one million times and publish that as my memoir. And, yes, it would be repetitive, experimental, and more metaphor than history, but it would also be emotionally accurate.”
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“Memory works that way—like seeing forward and backward at the same time.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“It's strange, to not be the youngest kind of adult anymore”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
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