Jill A. Davis Archive

"I was in my hotel room, worrying what hypothetical and amazing thing might happen next, yet afraid to find out." - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

"Lost people are different. They will drive around in the same circle over and over rather than try a new path. Their fear of getting more lost paralyzed them into staying lost in the area that's just become familiar. It supersedes their ability to chart a new course. They circle and backtrack and stay comfortably lost because it's less scary than seeing something different than what's presently in front of them." - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

"'The thing that's always concerned me about you is that you live your life with one foot out the door. It's unsettling.'" - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

"anyway, what i mean is, i could be attracted to him, but only if he were very single. i mean, if his girlfriend died in a horrible car accident or something left him a widower, i couldn't fall for him. I'd worry he'd love her forever and cry whenever he opened the closet and saw her dead dresses just hanging there, and I'd be like the second-runner-up in love. and i'm way too insecure and competitive to sign up for that kind of nonsense." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis

"Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want. That's what makes me do it -- make one of those decisions -- the kind that bends your future in a whole new direction." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis

"I've always avoided fights. I make jokes instead. I tell people what they want to hear in order to avoid a confrontation. I pretend to want things I don't want, and I pretend not to want things I do want. no one gets hurt. except me. the lines are so crossed and blurred at the point that I don't know what I want. I just know I want it to be easy." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis

"It's so horrible to want to fast-forward through anyone's life--or death. Skip the grief and jump to the next scene. Skipping the grief is an eerie U-turn back to childhood." - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

"My grief is so old it's a habit. It is so much a part of me that I'm afraid to give it up." - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

"'I'm not sure I should make this easy for you.'" - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

"'look, at this point, there's no reason for us to see each other anymore, okay? I mean, there's no real point, is there? so let's just stop it now, okay?'" Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis