This Time Tomorrow

by Emma Straub

Alice was an expert, but not because she wanted to be; it was like being raised bilingual, only one of the languages was money.

The way you spend your days is the way you spend your life.

what it feels like to love someone so much, and then have them change into someone else. You love that new person, but it’s different, and it all happens so fast, even the parts that feel like they just last for fucking ever while they’re happening.”

Once you had proof of the sudden cruelty of life, how could you ever relax? How could you just let things happen?

Any story could be a comedy or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic, how the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.