Super Bloom Quotes

“Carmen, sulking and fuming, decides that this is the moment she needs a very particular type of omelet with a very particular type of fluffy egg, mushrooms just so, and on and on. I watch Carmen speak, the green spinach bobbing up and down, Carmen asking for “the red peppers diced, not in strips,” and my distaste for her rises again like heartburn. Being with Carmen is a bipolar swing. One minute I suspect I might be starting to like her, but the next I want to throttle her much more tightly than that white scarf.”
― Megan Tady, Super Bloom

“At 4:00 a.m., I slither into bed, but I’m too revved up to sleep. Instead, I repeatedly flip the pillow to the cool side, fretting that Carmen will see me for what I am: a sneak who’s been playing at being a writer on her dime.”
― Megan Tady, Super Bloom

“Being in here like this, with you. It’s like being inside a snow globe. Untouchable to the outside world. Cozy. Warm.” “Protected,” Evian finishes. “Our own little bubble. Encasing this moment forever.”
― Megan Tady, Super Bloom

“What I need is a hefty dose of willpower. A readiness to try my hardest and possibly fail. That’s the only way to bloom.”
― Megan Tady, Super Bloom

“I’m fighting for my livelihood by working on The Project—paying off my debt, keeping my day job. But when I write for myself, I’m fighting for my life, because remaining debilitated, angry, or bowled over without a moment’s notice by sadness is no way to exist.”
― Megan Tady, Super Bloom

“Evian. I would be Evian. A woman so self-assured she gives off a presidential vibe. Crowds part for her. People listen to her. She has more than one friend, can keep a rosemary plant alive, and earns enough to afford to heat her apartment all winter instead of parking the thermostat at fifty-nine degrees.”
― Megan Tady, Super Bloom

“Sometimes I even admire Sweet Bird, the way he’s smaller than so many things yet entirely undeterred from charging forth into the unknown. I’d take an ounce of that right now.”
― Megan Tady, Super Bloom

“In that incubation stage, that rare, raw, naive period that can never be repeated, we tethered our happiness to each other, nestled in our world like we were protected inside a snow globe. Untouchable from the outside.”
― Megan Tady, Super Bloom