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I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.
“When I’m quiet I can hear my heart yearning for impossible things. I want a perfectly pared-down home, and I want to hang on to every scrap of the past. I want a break from my kids without missing a single minute of their lives. I long for a partnership, and I long for freedom. I long to be enmeshed with someone without losing myself. I want all of it. Maybe”
― Summer Romance
― Summer Romance
“No,” I say. “He caught me. Just like Fancy would have. And I’ll always catch you too.”
― Summer Romance
― Summer Romance
“Love is not If you clean up, I’ll help you through your grief. I’m not sure what love is, but I think it’s something different from that.”
― Summer Romance
― Summer Romance
“Life’s going to do what life’s going to do, Alice. You might as well have a dog.”
― Summer Romance
― Summer Romance
“And now I can never unknow the truest true thing - the intensity of the love you feel will match the intensity of its loss. This is practically physics.”
― Summer Romance
― Summer Romance
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