nicole

“I get the urge to feel it, too, so when she takes her hand away, I turn her toward me and I feel the edges of New Jersey. I kiss Hoboken and Atlantic City. I kiss Newark and Trenton. I kiss Camden, and then I follow the road west, over the Walt Whitman Bridge into Pennsylvania. And I kiss home.”
― A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants

“All this time, I'd wanted to do a job so well that I'd feel done. I wanted to accomplish enough to be good enough. But if that wasn't possible, then the very condition I'd been working so hard to avoid - being uncertain and unfinished - might be unavoidable. It might just be how life was, and everyone else had known it all along, like they all knew what a lobsterman was, and I'd been working my ass off like a mouse on a wheel, not realizing that I was running toward cheese that wasn't even there.”
― Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

“I was a woman sobbing in a hotel corridor, which is kind of incredible, because when I was little I thought I was going to be a senator.”
― Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It

“You and I are now the Romeo and Juliet of friendships. Only we’re the Juliet and Juliet.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, To Night Owl from Dogfish