“MOMENTS OF great import are often tinged with darkness because perversely we yearn to be let down.” — Courtney Maum Darkness 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 Heart Copy Share Image
“But you lose the opportunity to share the good things when you do something bad.” — Courtney Maum Good thing Copy Share Image
“You know what we say in America about people who assume things? That they have two hours to get the fuck out… — Courtney Maum Assume 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… — Courtney Maum Side effects 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,… — Courtney Maum Habits 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… — Courtney Maum Love 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… — Courtney Maum Business 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… — Courtney Maum Children 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… — Courtney Maum Cell phone 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… — Courtney Maum Courtship 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,… — Courtney Maum Side effects Copy Share Image
“Americans didn't know why they'd become so obsessed with cacti-they just accepted the fact that drought-resistant plants were the new must-haves for… — Courtney Maum Cacti 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… — Courtney Maum Move forward Copy Share Image
“I will say this about the upper echelon in France: they know how to spend money. From what I saw living in… — Courtney Maum Money Copy Share Image
“People don't want to think about defects when they are drinking wine.” — Courtney Maum Defects Copy Share Image
“If you do things in plain sight, people don’t interfere. It’s when you get all surreptitious that the trouble starts.” — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“I fell asleep smiling, fully at ease with the ludicrous prospect of spending the rest of my life with this one, single… — Courtney Maum Love 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… — Courtney Maum Love Copy Share Image
“All these openings for closeness--all these humans with their disappointments and their desperate hearts, but it's so much easier, so convenient, to… — Courtney Maum Closeness Copy Share Image
“Visually and audibly, the world of today was designed to distract. Before you could give a name to your own feelings, there… — Courtney Maum Distract Copy Share Image
“The possibility that he really did harbor some attraction to her couldn't pierce her core. It wasn't in the realm of things… — Courtney Maum Heart Copy Share Image
