“I guess some people’s stories are only written in the sand. And some are written in the stars.”
“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”
― Down Among the Sticks and Bones
― Down Among the Sticks and Bones
“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”
― The Course of Love
― The Course of Love
“I just wanted to be wanted. For one person to seek me out, to spend time with me because they liked me.”
― Ruin
― Ruin
“We don’t need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.”
― The Course of Love
― The Course of Love
“The important books should be those that leave us wondering, with relief and gratitude, how the author could possibly have known so much about our lives.”
― The Course of Love
― The Course of Love
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