Hello Beautiful

The surprise cleared a space inside Alice,

She felt unable to bear any compromise. She had closed the valve to her past—to her heart, really—and a half-open valve was a broken one.

defied centuries of misogyny that demanded wives prioritize husbands and had chosen to save herself.

“Daddy, she’s exquisite, isn’t she? You would adore her.

This vision was less complicated and fraught than any other that Julia had had in her life, because instead of depending on her husband, she was depending on her own capacity, which had been revealed to be limitless.

She couldn’t believe how fast her mind was moving, but perhaps these truths had been inside her all along and were accessible now because she’d given birth.

We’re part of the sky, and the rocks in your mother’s garden, and that old man who sleeps by the train station. We’re all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.

s because you know that more is possible that you’ll always see the pointlessness in following a stupid rule or clocking in and out of a boring class. Most people can’t see that distinction, so they just do as they’re told. Of course, this makes them bored and irritated, but they think that’s the human condition.

Neither of us would expect school or work to fill us up. We look out the window, or into ourselves, for something more.”

here’s what I think happened. From my vantage point,