I saw Adela the moment we pulled up on the beach, all the way onto the sand. She was impossible to miss. Not ’cause she was outstandingly pretty or ’cause her hair protruded from her scalp in a way no other African American girl down here
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“He fit so perfectly in the love story I'd imagined for myself that I mistook him for the love of my life.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“Happy. Not giddy or overjoyed, but that low, steady level of happiness that, in the best periods of life, rides underneath everything else, a buffer between you and the world you are walking over.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“I know feeling small gets to some people, . . . but I kind of like it. Takes the pressure off when you’re just one life of six billion at any given moment. And when you’re going through something hard . . . it’s nice to know you’re not even close to the only one.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“If you have the will to do something, and you keep at it, and you don't give up, you can do anything. And there's no greater will than the will to love who you want.”
― Frankly in Love
― Frankly in Love
“Bad things don't dig down through your life until the pit's so deep that nothing good will ever be big enough to make you happy again. No matter how much shit, there will always be wildflowers.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
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