Truth and Telling
For when you need to know someone else lived through it—and chose to speak. Personal, poetic, or plainspoken—what matters is that they told it.
by Dolly Alderton"Nearly everything I know about love, I’ve learnt from my long‑term friendships with women.”Everything I Know About Love
by Bell Hooks"We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost."All About Love: New Visions
by Raphael Bob-Waksberg"You meant to be in ruins permanently, your misery a monument, a gash across the cold hard earth, but honestly, who has the time for that?"Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
by Joanna Biggs“I needed to remind myself that starting out on my own again halfway through life is possible, has been possible for others – and that this sort of life can have beauty in it.”
by Ann Patchett“As every reader knows, the social contract between you and a book you love is not complete until you can hand that book to someone else and say, ‘Here, you’re going to love this.'"These Precious Days
by Ross Gay"I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight. I also learned this year that my delight grows — much like love and joy — when I share it.” The Book of Delights
by Maggie Smith“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”You Could Make This Place Beautiful
by Deborah Levy“Ideas come to us as the successors to griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure the heart.” The Cost of Living