You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

I don't think I've ever tried on a corset, though a certain bridesmaid's dress did require a torturous bustier that will stay forever burned in my sensory memory.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

I learned a lot of details about 1920s clothes, cars, kitchen appliances, and food. I had a character eating peanut butter in one scene until I learned that peanut butter wasn't commercially packaged and sold until 1924.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

I am supposed to be where I go.