February 2012
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“We’ve grown up in an age of rampant divorce and the accompanying tumult. The...”
– Let’s Not Get to Know Each Other Better - Modern Love - The New York Times
This is old, and I’m pretty sure I probably blogged it way back in ‘08 when it was a runner-up in NYT’s Modern Love essay contest.
Happened to come across an old copy I’d printed out and...
“No matter what you have been through, you aren’t dead inside like you think you...”
– Erin Foster, Single Girls Guide: Valentine’s Shmalentine’s on HelloGiggles (via crosswordsandcoffee)
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do...”
– Aldous Huxley, Island (via moreofamore)
I'm usually the girl in this one....
Amanda: Okay, let's say we just make this happen. We each commit to flying back and forth as much as we can.
Graham: Yes! It's doable, definitely.
Amanda: And then let's say in 6 months we hit a wall. Like I can't constantly be away from work or the girls can't deal with you leaving so often. Then we start to feel the tension, we know this isn't going to work, so we start fighting because we don't know what else to do. And after a long, tearful- at your end...
Graham: I like it
[sarcastically]
Graham: .
Amanda: -phone call we say goodbye. And that'll be it, for real. It's not like we're ever going to bump into each other. And then what's left? Two miserable people feeling totally mashed up it hurts. Or...
Graham: Thank you.
Amanda: Or maybe we should just realize that what we've had these past few weeks has been perfect. And maybe it won't get any better than this. And maybe we're trying to figure this thing out because it makes us feel so good to feel this way, and maybe the fact that I'm leaving in 8 hours makes this far more exciting than it might actually be.
Graham: You're seriously the most depressing girl I have ever met.
“You still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did...”
– The Holiday