“When I commend her on avoiding the standardized addiction-and-recovery story arc, she shrugs off the compliment. ‘That’s what everyone says, but I’d so much rather have that story arc.”— Emily Gould, Cat Marnell, nymag.com
“My best friend texts me after I instagram a photo of my roommate and me in a photobooth on a night where I overdrafted my account in order to buy drinks. ‘God your life looks so cool.'”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“The rooms had never felt particularly warm, and here they looked especially vacant: of any soul, all memories. I remembered how naked I felt when buyers came to tour the house once we put it up for sale; how obvious it was that the life of a typical Brooklyn family was not being lived there — that t…”— Kim France, medium.com
“The moral of the story is: don’t trust people who want to sell you answers. Don’t trust people who tell you they have found Answers. Run away from people who tell you about their transformation. Call their bluff when they tell you they are living in their happily ever after. These things aren’t real…”— Chrissy Stockton, chrissystockton.com
“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold sick feeling, deep down inside—when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before…”— Jennifer Donnelly, amazon.com
“The very idea of ‘happily ever after’ is as much an illusion as the idea of 'a cure.’ We are all looking for a quick and complete fix, a cure. We want to be able to say, 'I was this way before and now I am better. It’s great and that’s that.’ Yet we know life doesn’t work that way.”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com