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He has a relentless sense of belonging, even in places he’s never been before. When I’m with him, I get a taste of what that’s like.
The heart. I don’t care if his parents’ connections got Richard his job at Morgan Stanley, because his greatest work isn’t his title there; it’s how he treats every single person.
It makes you wonder about the price of great art, doesn’t it? If it requires someone to hurt, whether it’s the artist or the ones they love?
our first dance song: “Home,” by Edward Sharpe
“Have you ever seen or read The Handmaid’s Tale?” I shake my head. “It’s about women who help men abuse other women. It’s more than that, but the story gets into this idea that people can have contempt for their own gender.”
That period taught me it’s okay—more than okay, it’s important—to feel things deeply. It’s a strength, not something that needs to be medicated.
Does every woman feel trapped in situations like these? I fell in love with Richard, not his family. Now here I am, getting married to all of them.
At this point, I’m unsure which is more frightening: Vanessa’s disappearance or Clarke’s transformation.
The characters keep shifting personalities all of them seem to have Jekyll and Hyde syndrome
How is Clarke so sure that something bad has happened?
“It’s not that she wanted us to be rich. She wanted us to be—complicated.”
In every message, I sensed that I was begging, and when you have to beg someone to stay, they’ve already left.
Some tragedies are so loud they mute everything around them. Joy feels like a betrayal to whoever’s in pain.
“If you ask me, you’re lucky you got out of that family now instead of ten years down the line: no divorce, no custody battles.
“Everything is a battle of perspective. There’s always a winner, and when you lose—when you decisively lose—then your view becomes the crazy one. So when people call you ‘insane,’ they’re letting you know who won.”
That real family isn’t about how much you have in common; it’s about how much you forgive. How much you let happen and hold on because that’s how much they matter.
