"If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall."
- Corey Ann Haydu
"The laws of physics say if there’s a party, Isla will eventually end up dancing on a table."
"You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January."
"Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways."
"...The human mind is a complicated place...We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to."
"Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost."
"That's the thing about anxiety: It's a real time suck."
"I see my mother exactly as she is – sad and strong, tense and trying."
"We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city."