Writers & Lovers

One conversation can destroy my whole morning

‘You spend enough time at the racetrack, you know your horse, okay? You always know your horse.’

‘It’s always a choice between fireworks and coffee in bed,’ Fabiana says. ‘It always is.’

You don’t realize how much effort you’ve put into covering things up until you try to dig them out.

you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them

I’m already nostalgic for summer

He considered suicide but believed it would be killing his mother again if he destroyed his own memory of her.

Tomorrow after you leave I will stand here at this window and remember that yesterday you were right here with me.’

But at night I terrified myself with this fear that somewhere inside me someone wanted to die.

Marriage is the polar opposite of a fairy tale