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To my parents, I’m basically a human version of an air plant. I’m alive and thriving, but they don’t really understand the science behind it.
If there’s one thing my family does consistently well, it’s pretending that everything is OK.
“Because that’s what books are made for. They’re made to connect you to people, real or fictional, even when you feel like you’re completely alone.”
they’ll see me for who I really am: a thirtysomething writer of smut who shows up for the people she loves. And still says no to drugs.
“Everyone knows that a woman of questionable morals can’t resist a good gas station doughnut.”
“It’s not the beginning that’s painful in my opinion. It’s the ending that came before it. New moons represent that too. The end of one phase and the beginning of a new.”
it, and places the slip of blank paper inside. “We don’t always get to choose when one phase ends and another begins, but we can choose how we face it.”
“Happiness isn’t a place you go back to. Happiness is a place you build and rebuild and then tear down and remodel a thousand times over inside you.”
“Write down your dreams, hopes, and desires on a slip of paper, and burn them. My mother used to call it writing love letters to the universe. Set your intentions and trust yourself to follow through.”
