“We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“I see my mother exactly as she is – sad and strong, tense and trying.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“That’s the thing about anxiety: It’s a real time suck.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“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.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“…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.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“The laws of physics say if there’s a party, Isla will eventually end up dancing on a table.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“I hate the way the world feels when love is gone”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“Death always feels far away from life, until it isn’t.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“Everyone else’s Minute of remembering is over, but ours stretches on and on. It doesn’tend.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“This is another awful truth of losing people you love: everyone needs something different. And the needs almost never match up.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It’s like a gift from the universe.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“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.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“We are LornaCruzCharlotteDelilahIsla and we aren’t afraid of love, even if we’re supposed to be.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“On our own, we’d look totally normal. Together, we’re something else. Together, we’re special.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“We don’t smile, but we something. We something. It hurts, the way a deep connection to someone who isn’t yours sometimes does.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“Sometimes words I think are small come out big.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“Love is something you have or don’t have. Love is like a fever.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether you’re married or not.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“I can’t quite figure out the difference between loving someone and loving things about them.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“Love is insanity, apparently.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“I want to know if we are the same, in the moments when we’re stripped bare.”
— Corey Ann Haydu
“Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, there’s still space for sweet things.”
— Corey Ann Haydu