“There is a time, she thinks, at the start of any relationship, when the process of falling in love softens a personality, like wax in a warm room. And so two people in love change, just a little, pushing their wax figures together, a protuberance here smoothed down but creating a dip there. It doesn’t last long, the time when love can gently change who you are, and in the relationships that she’s visited over the last six months, the moment has long passed. She has been presented with the shape of her new husband, and invited to either contort to fit or reject him wholesale.”
― The Husbands
― The Husbands
“You're my best friend, Percy. Please be my family.”
― Every Summer After
― Every Summer After
“It’s yours,” he offers. I laugh. “Oh? I can have the world?” “Mine,” he says, “yeah. You can have mine.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“You brought the silence, The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard, Because it was where you were. And now you've taken it away. And all the noises, all the sounds in the world, Aren't loud enough to pierce my broken heart. I look up at the stars, endless and forever, and whisper, Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me.”
― Archer's Voice
― Archer's Voice
“Because if ever I could claim to have seen the face of God, it was in the colossal faces of those giraffes.”
― West With Giraffes
― West With Giraffes
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