Status Updates From Ordinary Girls

“And if I could reach back through time and space to that girl I was, to all my girls, I would tell you to take care, to love each other, fight less, dance dance dance until you’re breathless. And goddamn girl. Live”

“How do we keep living in the world when everything we built is gone? How do we even go on?”

“Nothing is better, not yet, and I know it, but at least I have my girls. It’s like they heard me calling from miles away.”

“And Mercy, when she looks at her baby, she suddenly feels like she’s looking into the center of the universe, the whole world in her arms, the whole world is terrifying”