Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel Quotes

“Dates were like deep friendships filmed in timelapse, one-night stands were like express-courtships from courtship to dissolution... When I'd entered my last relationship at twenty, we'd all been new and shiny. Now I was meeting people who had... stories.”
― Anya Ulinich, Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel

“When I'd begun my last relationship, nearly two decades ago, I'd been unaware of the rule that new lovers must hoard the 'L Word' the way atomic nations hoard their explosives, like something that, once detonated, would change their world forever.”
― Anya Ulinich, Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel

“No one ever truly arrives! We just nudge each other along muddy ruts of suffering, occasionally peeking over the edges of our ruts in search of a better way...”
― Anya Ulinich, Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel