Sporting short-cropped perky red hair, black chunky boots, relaxed casually thrown tees over the shoulder, laid back cadence but an equally intellectual intelligent mind.

Greta Gerwig as Abbie in 20th Century Women

You can live wherever you want to live, be whoever you want to be. You have time.

Rachel Cusk, from Outline

THERE IS NO HOME TO RETURN TO

"The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free."

The Way it Is

One morning you might wake up

to realize that the knot in your stomach

had loosened itself and slipped away,

and that the pit of unfulfilled longing in your heart

had gradually, and without your really noticing,

been filled in—patched like a pothole, not quite

the same as it was, but good enough.

And in that moment it might occur to you

that your life, though not the way

you planned it, and maybe not even entirely

the way you wanted it, is nonetheless—

persistently, abundantly, miraculously—

exactly the way it is.