“ The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you. ”
She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange, indecipherable symbols.
~ Molly Ringwald
Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.
whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her
Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when it breaks.
