Wife 22 Quotes

“For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“What was unspoken between us, what need never be explained or said, was that nobody would ever love us again like our mothers did. Yes, we would be loved, by our fathers, our friends, our siblings, our aunts and uncles and grandparents and spouses--and our children if we chose to have them--but never would we experience that kind of unconditional, nothing-you-can-do-will-turn-me-away-from-you kind of mother love.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“All I have to say is - run, dive, pitch a tent... Spend hours on the phone with your best friend.... Wear bikinis. Drink tequila. Wake up in the morning happy for no good reason.... Lie in the grass, dream of your future, of your imperfect life & your imperfect marriage to your imperfect true love.... Because what else is there? Honestly, there's nothing else. Nothing else matters.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“And no, I am not capable of experiencing the present with the same sort of attention to detail. But once the present becomes the past I seem to have no problem attending to it obsessively. : )”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“Reasercher 101,
I do not long for the old, unreachable days. When I'm plugged in I can go anywhere, do and learn anything. Today, for instance, I visited a tiny library in Portugal. I learned how the Shakers weave baskets and I discovered my best friend in middle school loves blood-orange sorbet. Okay, I also learned that a certain pop star actually believes she's a fairy, an honest-to-goodness fairy from the fey people, but my point is access. Access to information. I don't even have to look out my window to see what the eather is like. I can have the weather delivered every morning to my phone. What could be better?
Sincerely,
Wife 22

Wife 22,
Getting caught in the rain?
All the best,
Researcher 101”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“Slowness seems to be a key element in living a rich life. I don't mean rich in the sense of money. I mean rich in the ability to feel things as they're happening, to not constantly be thinking of the next thing.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“We might miss the days of being unreachable.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“But my advice is—have the courage to let your marriage be some fiery country in the throes of revolution where each of you speaks a different dialect and sometimes you can barely understand each other but it doesn’t matter because, well, each of you is fighting. Fighting for each other.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“No matter where I went, no matter how far I drifted, no matter how long I was gone, you would come after me and bring me home.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“When you finally found me, sobbing at the base of pine tree, you made me a promise I'll never forget. No matter where I went, no matter how far I drifted, no matter how long I was gone, you would come after me and bring me home. It was the most romantic thing a man had ever said to me. Which makes it all the more difficult for me to come to term with the fact that twenty years later we've drifted from one another again. Profligate drifting. Senseless drifting. As if we had all the daylight left in the world to make to the top of Tuckerman. If this sounds like a goodbye letter, I'm sorry. I'm not sure it's goodbye. It's more of a warning. You should probably look at your watch. You should probably say to yourself, Alice has been gone for a very long time. You should probably come and find me.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“Was he even planning on coming to meet me? Or did he change his mind at the last minute? Did he decide he liked me better at a distance? That meeting the real me would ruin his fantasy? And what about my fantasy? That there was a real man out there who saw me. A man who couldn’t stop thinking about me. A man who made me feel like a woman worthy of being obsessed about.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

“I think I’d rather be beautiful. Beautiful makes evolving into any sort of a person with morals and character very difficult.”
― Melanie Gideon, Wife 22