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It was a beautiful thing to watch your best friend be loved in the way you know she deserves.
Life had begun to feel bittersweet, and I was getting all of the bitter and everyone else was getting the sweet.
I loved my small town, but I think that was partly because I’d gotten out of it for a bit, experienced life somewhere else.
It was like a room with a low ceiling and no windows, but you wouldn’t know that unless you left and saw how big other rooms could be.
“But just because you thought you’d be ‘settled’ by now—whatever that means—doesn’t mean you’re behind.
Maybe that meant good things could come from realizing you can’t do it all on your own.
Some people like to crack open a cold beer at the end of a hard workday. Me? I like a crisp Diet Coke.
Dads were supposed to be invincible, and even though I knew my dad wasn’t, I still wished he could be.
realizing my enemy is maybe actually the thing I’ve wanted in my life this whole time?
I’d think about the time my daughter and I danced together in Teddy Andersen’s garage.
“It’s okay to love her, Gus. It’s okay to want her. It’s okay to want. You have so much love to give, Gus. I see it in the way that you love our daughter and in the way you care for your family—me included—and I just want you to have someone who can love you back the same way.”
“And Teddy—our lion—might be the only person I know who loves as fiercely as you do.”
“Something always has to give, and it’s okay to let it.”
think that your existence—the way you care and fight and love and live—is a miracle.
But you’re my soulmate, Teddy Andersen, and I’m the luckiest girl in the world because of it.”
I watched my daughter collide with the woman I loved, and I watched the woman I loved catch her.
It was a wish, and wishes were made of air—at best.
“Wanting used to scare me so much, because I didn’t think I had the space to want anything more than what I’ve got.
