“All these openings for closeness--all these humans with their disappointments and their desperate hearts, but it's so much easier, so convenient, to blame emotional distance on a lack of time.” — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“And so I found myself in a kind of love lock: pining for the wrong person, grieving beside a woman whose body I can't touch, being given a second chance I can't find the clarity to take.” — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“the color-matching company had to make up for their dismal mistake with 2015, which they’d dubbed the year of “marsala,” which only ended up… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“If you were to succeed in prolonging the deliriously ecstatic puppy-dog love stage of the first months of courtship through-out the entire relationship itself-through… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“You love people. They disappoint you. But sometimes, they don’t. They just keep loving you, right through it all, waiting for you to wake… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“When you're clear-sighted, you settle into experiences that feed you until they become so familiar and soul-filling that they're a nourishing routine, and as… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“When we start a relationship, professional, romantic or otherwise, even when we're born, we establish these threads of energy that connect us to another… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“Also, she wasn't a fan of being scared, and it had to be petrifying to love someone more than yourself.” — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“They’ve always made a bigger deal about the side effects of drinking pregnant in America than they have in France. But then, the Americans… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“MOMENTS OF great import are often tinged with darkness because perversely we yearn to be let down.” — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
