15 Quotes by Elisa Albert

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

Siblings, more than parents, more than teachers and friends and lovers and pets, shape the people we are.

A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process.

It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.

For as long as wimmin have had the temerity to experience feelings of anger, sadness, frustration, and deep resentment, patriarchal society has denied them these feelings, and, in fact, punished them heartily for feeling anything at all.

Here’s the problem: we are taught nothing. How to sew, grow food, preserve food, build things, fix things, make fires, birth babies, care for babies, feed babies, move through time, grow old, die, grieve, change, sit still, be quiet. Still and quiet, endless Interneters, quiet, quiet, quiet. How to be alone, how to shut up and be.

Paul’s wanting does not hinge on anything other than the fact of me. This is an excellent trait in a man.

The trick is to surrender completely, take your moments when you get them, don’t dare want for more.

Are you some kind of witch? Yup, I reply, and stare him down.