Caitlin > Recent Status Updates

I don’t trust anyone who considers a candy cane an emotional support food.

“How strange to be repulsed by a man’s scrutiny and yet still perform for it.”

“We did what country estate owners always do when they have a guest to entertain and no plan. We went for a long walk.”

“we had grown up in homes where the only way to voice your displeasure was to go so quiet that your silence was like a scream”

“She was not so much beautiful as devoid of flaws.”

Excellent burn

“In the face of skepticism, the only option was to beguile.”

“Standing inside Westminster Hall always made the arc of history feel very short to me.”

“You are my husband and the only reason I’m qualified to write any sort of love story.”

And

“It’s not hard to write characters when you cine from a family of them.”

These acknowledgements 🫶🥹

"All people want is a mirror - a mirror to how they already feel."

"The lockdown, it seems, was only for normal people. The first families were never going to stop partying."

Paging Boris Johnson

"I don't know the difference between love and just wanting something like a child wants a toy."

"Mothering is more important to the mother than to the son."

"Why make a villain and then forget him?"

"We were a toy that was picked up for political expediency, and once that goal was reached, we were dropped facedown in the mud."

"Your first kiss with a boy you liked should ideally happen fully clothed and before you've saved his life." 😂

“We never think of ourselves as the tragic figure in the story.”

"Hard times welcome an easy target."

"There are no perfect candidates. Just people who can and will."

"Suddenly the world seems divinely simple, which I suppose is why people go to church in the first place. To reduce the complexities and the frailties of being human to the divine. To the simple. Beat the bad guys. Save the girl. Live 'til 30."

"My given name became a limb too tender to rest my weight on."

oof this wording

"Home is a moving target because home is one another."

"Like all theatres, they did everything to communicate to pedestrians that they were buildings of huge cultural importance. They had columns, and steps, and big curved roofs to aid the echoing of important words."

“The pavilion outside the train station is filled with statues of great men and good daughters.”

“All salesmen wear suspenders”

Funny to hear Natasha Hodgson read this line given the standard uniform over at Operation Mincemeat

Ugh RIP Cafe Lalo and RIP Metrocards

“It doesn’t make any sense how quick my mind works with you… one second we’re kissing and the next I’m thinking about what our grandkids will be named.” 😭

“It’s the very fact that it’s finite that makes travel special.”

“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other.”

“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other.”

“It’s fascinating, how so much of love is who *you* are with someone.”

“In don’t want you to make fun of my phone voice.” Is such a relatable sentiment.