Corey Ann Haydu

“It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something.”

“It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether you’re married or not.”

“...The human mind is a complicated place...We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to.”

“We don’t smile, but we something. We something. It hurts, the way a deep connection to someone who isn’t yours sometimes does.”

“Everyone else’s Minute of remembering is over, but ours stretches on and on. It doesn’tend.”

“I want to know if we are the same, in the moments when we’re stripped bare.”

“Death always feels far away from life, until it isn’t.”

“Like Christmas trees and Easter egg hunts and the block party on the last day of summer, we do things because traditions feel cozy and safe.”

“On our own, we’d look totally normal. Together, we’re something else. Together, we’re special.”

“If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall.”

“Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.”

“You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.”

“Love is insanity, apparently.”

“The laws of physics say if there’s a party, Isla will eventually end up dancing on a table.”

“I can’t quite figure out the difference between loving someone and loving things about them.”

“I hate the way the world feels when love is gone”

“We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.”

“I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine.”

“Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It’s like a gift from the universe.”

“Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.”