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“My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window.”
Katja Millay“My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window.”
Katja Millay“I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.”
Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility“His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being.”
Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility“Every normal family is one tragedy away from complete implosion.”
Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility“Maybe I don't need to save her forever. Maybe I can just save her right now, in this moment, and if I can do that, maybe it will save me and maybe that can be enough.”
Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility“I wish I could have saved you," he says finally. And this is what it always comes back to. Salvation. Him saving me. Me saving him. Impossibilities, because there is no such thing, and it's not what we ever needed from each other anyway.”
Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility“I stayed in therapy long enough to know that nothing that happened to me was my fault. I didn't do anything to invite it or deserve it. But that just makes it worse. Maybe I don't blame myself for what happened, but when they tell you that something was completely and utterly random, they're also telling you something else. That nothing you do matters. It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and act the right way and follow all the rules, because evil will find you anyway. Evil's resourceful that way. ... They tell you it was random to make you feel blameless. But all I hear them telling me is that I have no control, and if I have no control, then I'm powerless. I would have preferred being blamed.”
Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility“I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.”
Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility“My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother's regret.”
Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility“People who have never been through any sort of shit always assume that they know how you should react to having your life destroyed. And the people who have been through shit think you're suppose to deal with it the exact same way they did. As if there's a playbook for surviving hell.”
Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility