yes

[adularia]

I am doing the best I can. I am hoping I am good enough. I am holding you close, as close as I can, hand cradling your head and breath on your hair, trying to remember that I cannot keep you safe, but I can keep you loved.

Butch is a Noun (pp. 93-94)

Comments

[gipsieee]

Yes. And that sometimes that will be enough, and sometimes it will not, and that the latter is not by definition a failing on my part.

[roninviolet]

So interested in where exactly that came from? Awesome quote.

[adularia]

I just edited the post to be a little less oblique. It's from Butch is a Noun.

... which is one of those relatively short books that is nonetheless taking me several days to get through because I keep putting it down and thinking about it for hours.