“Inside the word ‘emergency’ is ‘emerge’; from an emergency new things come.” — Rebecca Solnit
A friend from Europe recently messaged me:

HELL NO, was my initial thought. It’s actually a thought I have quite regularly. I’ll be doing something

A collection of writing quotes that now apply to saving my marriage.

There is a certain level of pain a woman must be in to take her husband’s phone from its charger and carry it into the bathroom at one a.m.
There’s another level, unknown to most women, to take that phone downstairs, hands shaking, and call