Mary Lynch

“They try to fight the waves, but they can’t fight the moon. They can’t fight the world’s rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just don’t work out.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Maybe I’m ignorant and idealistic but I just feel like that can’t possibly be true. I feel like we know that. I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear—at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five—we might forget.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories