Mallory

“I just feel a little bit sad. Sad isn't bleeding. Sad is okay”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“The road trip would have been romantic, cathartic maybe, to feel each mile drop behind them, to watch the landscape change and change again, to eat hamburgers in sticky diners and make picnics from sad grocery stores and take over motels so beaten they could afford to stay two to a room and everyone could have his own bed.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It's not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that's no badge of honor.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Later, much later, she said the same, that it was love pre first site, that she'd walked around that whole morning and afternoon somehow knowing that this would be the last first date of her life.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is