(no beers in) So how do you perceive me in the privacy of your thoughts

The bravest thing you can do is stop mourning the life you expected and start noticing the one that's trying to find you.

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

nothing more powerful than a girl with a monologue going on in her head all the time... alone in her room... plotting... planning

crazy how i find myself thinking i've got a handle on it all finally and then i see the ways that other people tangle their lives together so easily and live so easily together with their friends and i feel like that girl at the top of the stairs painting by norman rockwell