The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Marina wouldn’t want to be remembered because she’s dead. She would want to be remembered because she’s good.

(THERE CAN ALWAYS BE A BETTER THING.)

Do you wanna leave soon?

No, I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .

And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

—Marina Keegan, from the poem “Bygones”

Anne Fadiman, professor, mentor, and friend to M

hours a week writing a novel. (Tonight is tap.) If I was willing to devote that much time chatting in a tomb I should be willing to devote it to writing! 6–12 sundays and thursdays. Might call it BOOK and BOOK. :)
She had devoted l

determination and resilience. Marina had all three, and that’s why I am

amuel Taylor Coleridge, an inveterate procrastinator

Joyce Maynard even though most of her classmat

you’re my tether outside these walls.

romanticism pees itself