“I’ve loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn’t change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing in my body and desire in my heart until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.”
― If He Had Been with Me
― If He Had Been with Me
“Death happens to him more suddenly than I can describe to you or even care to imagine.”
― If He Had Been with Me
― If He Had Been with Me
“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― The Glass Castle
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― The Glass Castle
“Finny?” I say. There is silence. “Oh, Autumn,” my mother says.”
― If He Had Been with Me
― If He Had Been with Me
“My love for Finny is buried like a stillborn child; it is just as cherished and just as real, but nothing will ever come of it. I imagine it wrapped up in lace, tucked away in a quiet corner of my heart. It will stay there for the rest of my life, and when I die, it will die with me.”
― If He Had Been with Me
― If He Had Been with Me
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