New places Quote by Megan Rich

“Patrick would flip The Beatles on mornings after a fight, when we’d bake bread, kneading our troubles into something we could eat. We’d take…

— Megan Rich

“The deeper I went into the valley, the greater the rewards. First, it was a clump of birches, the bottoms wrapped in thick fog,…

— Megan Rich

“The afternoon sunk into the tall grass growing on the roadside. The distant dome turned from coral to burnt umber, a final flash of…

— Megan Rich

“It came as a surprise to us, as I suspect it does to many, that marriage changed us. We’d felt as though we’d always…

— Megan Rich

“I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and I realized…

— Megan Rich

“Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the sky, filtered…

— Megan Rich

“And then there was his love affair with my best friend, perhaps the only woman he’d ever seen drink several glasses of bai-jiu and…

— Megan Rich

“Though we could always explain that our life was not as glamorous as it might seem in the telling, we did come to realize…

— Megan Rich

“My favorite times were spent in his backyard where he and his roommates had “let nature take its course,” the weeds towering above our…

— Megan Rich

“They then interviewed us, asking about our love of Qingdao, how we met, why we came. Having learned quickly what they wanted to hear,…

— Megan Rich

“Besides all of this, Patrick and I living together for the first time meant it was the beginning of a life together, that nitty-gritty…

— Megan Rich

“In his lifetime, that small fishing village had turned into the seventh largest port in the world, an eight-million-strong city; women had gotten the…

— Megan Rich