Molly Simpson

“There is a sweet spot between the known and the unknown where originality happens; the key is to be able to linger there without panicking.”

As long as there is love, there will be grief. The grief of time passing, of life moving on half-finished, of empty spaces that were once bursting with the laughter and energy of people we loved.

As long as there is love there will be grief because grief is love's natural continuation. It shows up in the aisles of stores we once frequented, in the

Of course, part of the problem is that we usually only know we were falling in love after it’s happened. Retrospect wears the right amount of cologne and pours you a third glass of wine you sip by candlelight because Retrospect is seductive like that.

It could take days or weeks or months before Retrospect waves you over before punching you in the

When you are describing or explaining or even just inwardly feeling your “self,” what you are actually doing, whether you know it or not, is drawing a mental line or boundary across the whole field of your experience, and everything on the inside of that boundary you are feeling or calling your “self,” while everything outside that boundary you

I used to believe that you should love someone for who they are. I still believe that, but with the caveat that I think that you should also love how they handle things. Is the distinction meaningful? Maybe it’s obvious—as a matchmaker, a lot of people certainly tell me they want to date someone whose judgment they respect. Of course, someone’s