The Collected Regrets of Clover

by Mikki Brammer

I envied their intimacy. The treasure of having someone who knew your taste in books.

Just because you don’t feel your feelings, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”

easy to glamorize the path you didn’t take.

“Be cautiously reckless.”

It’s so easy to see your parental figure through that lens alone, to think that their existence has always revolved around yours. But before they were parents, they were simply human beings trying to navigate life as best they could, dealing with their own disappointments, chasing after their own dreams. And yet we often expect them to be infallible.