6 Quotes by Caite Dolan-Leach

You know, you can start all kinds of relationships in your life,” Nadine continues. “But you only start life once. And you start it with a limited number of people. Those people, they do something to you.

It’s maddeningly painful not to be able to speak with the dead. But maybe what Zelda was trying to tell me is that it’s nearly as difficult to speak with the living.

I stop in exasperation and almost storm out of the Airstream, fed up with myself and with my sister, filled with that itchy combination of fatigue and anxiety that my entire family produces in me. An allergic reaction for which antihistamines can do nothing. I want a drink.

No one wants the complete picture, the whole story. It would leave no room for the fictions we need to tell ourselves about ourselves.

I wonder if this is what so terrifies people about digital technology, the idea that there will be a record of every moment, every mistake, every bad poem or carelessly carved-out letter.

People must be terrified of losing all mystery.