Rob

“I always lock the door when I creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

“Twenty years of joy and support and friendship, that’s a success. Twenty years of anything with another person is a success. If a band stays together twenty years, it’s a miracle. If a comedy duo stays together twenty years, they’re a triumph. Is this night a failure because it will end in an hour? Is the sun a failure because it’s going to end in a billion years? No, it’s the fucking sun. Why does a marriage not count? It isn’t in us, it isn’t in human beings, to be tied to one person forever.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories