Quotes from Shannon M Mullen

Maybe the truth doesn't exist if you look the other way.

Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren't there.

It's hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who's a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our routines, never really stopping to think about what will happen to us if we fall off track.

He nods, looking through the pictures on the screen on the back of his camera. Some relationships can only exist as memories. But unlike ephemeral digital images that can be sorted and deleted, we can't erase the past. We have to learn to live with all the images that are stored in love's archive, memories tagged good and bad. No Photoshopping. Accept the negative before moving forward.

She can't worry. She can't 'fix.' She can't love.

Of course her dumb Lab's going to do whatever it takes to retrieve the ball. What he craves more than freedom is companionship.

As I accept the flowers, I release my grip on the balloons, and they bounce gently against the ceiling the way they did before—hovering, annoyed, frustrated, contained by the ceiling and disappointed by the limits of life.

Sometimes our heroes let us down.

I guess all the time I spend on social media has made me believe that love exists above the surface, that it's supposed to be light all of the time.