Alison Espach

“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and…

— Alison Espach

“There is nothing better than this,” he said, and I worried he was right. I worried that once something had entered you,…

— Alison Espach

“You know," my father said sprinkling nutmeg on his brandy Alexander, "if you sniff too much nutmeg, you could die." "You can…

— Alison Espach

“Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.”

— Alison Espach

“When it was real it wasn’t funny. When you touched someone, they were always with you. When his mouth was on mine,…

— Alison Espach

“Even through all of this, sometimes I wanted to lift up her chin and say, "Don't you see that is your dog?"…

— Alison Espach

“Being an adult, it seemed, was horrible. But being a child was awful too, and moving from one state to the other…

— Alison Espach

“And then once in the music storage room. It was cold. The room was small with thin gray carpet and I cried…

— Alison Espach

“The neighborhood had gotten really into pastel the last few years. It started when Alfred's wife painted their whole house a soft…

— Alison Espach