Laurel Flores Fantauzzo > Quotes

“I’m afraid my crushes are dangerous for me. Maybe my heart will lead me the wrong way, always. Back into something that’ll always end bad. Into the wrong waters, where I’ll drown.”
― Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater

“There can be times,” she says, slowly, “when you’re vulnerable. It leaves you open to . . . the wrong things. The wrong people. The wrong people, making the wrong choices.”
― Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater

“You had a spirit in you also,” the healer goes on. “It was a strong spirit. Greedy. Selfish. It took your energy, took up too much space everywhere inside you. You had to feed it, always. It was hungry. But recently the spirit left you, and now you’re weak. It was holding you up. Now you have to hold yourself up. Your body must learn again, to live without it.”
― Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater

“Love was her steady rebellion—against her parents, against poverty, against, now, my dad’s accident. And my dad still returned that love. They’d built something that would last beyond any way they, or the world, would change”
― Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater

“I feel my heart underwater here. It’s strong and steady now, not drowning. I’m held. I’m afloat. I’m home.”
― Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater

“I shouldn’t feel like that with someone, I think. I shouldn’t feel so off-balance. Love doesn’t feel like that. Real love would feed me. It would shore me up. It would keep me from dark waters.”
― Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater