“I was afraid of so many things, I had come to realize during my traveling year. My mother seemed to have an immunity to fear, the way she hurled herself into foreign lands and the arms of men, while I was always entangled in ideas about penalties and peril.” SexFearRelationshipsTravelPenaltiesPerilBeing Afraid Book:What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us Source: What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
“I stand behind him and rest a hand on his shoulder. He lets me do what I know best: acquiesce, accommodate, allow my desires to melt like wax around the emergency of another life.” RelationshipsSupportEmpathySympathy Book:What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us Source: What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
“Behind every death lay a set of questions. To move on was to agree to not disturb these questions, to let them settle with the body under the earth. Yet some questions so thoroughly dismantled the terms of your own life, turning away was gravitationally impossible. So she would not be moving on. She would keep disturbing and disturbing. She imagined herself standing over a grave with a shovel and hacking away at the soil.” LifeDeathRelationshipsLossGriefMoving OnGrievingQuestions Book:The Third Hotel Source: The Third Hotel
“There were three sides to a marriage: public and private and who-fucking-knows, one lived and one performed and one a thundering mystery.” RelationshipsMarriageMysteryPrivate LifePublic Life Book:The Third Hotel Source: The Third Hotel