How to Make Friends in the Dark

“I’ve been doing this for quite some time and you know what? It’s a shame that it costs so much to tell the whole world that someone you love mattered to you, it really is. And I know we want to put every little thing in here because we want to show such a good, full life, don’t we? Even if it was a short one.”

A woman without wheels is a woman without freedom

You use her so you don’t have to live, June. And that means she never gets to live, either. What are you so afraid of?

The last thing I said to my mom was “Why can’t you ever just fucking leave me alone?”

The whole world is a new language to me now.

The whole world is a new language to me now.

love makes everything seem better, and love isn’t in this house anymore. Not that I can feel, anyway.

some women lived their whole lives in heavy black clothes, grief turning into a permanent kind of perfume.

I don’t know what that word, that mourn, means.”

“It means she’s the saddest in her heart that she’s ever been in her life,

Real life is even worse than the movies.