Dangerous things, wishes. Sometimes they come to you when you call. Sometimes they fly away after biting you.”
“All reading, in short, is telepathy and all reading is time travel. It connects us to everyone and everywhere and every time and every imagined dream.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“Just before the picture, the wind blew a strand of Rose’s long hair so that it wrapped over my shoulder, and I thought maybe that was the sign I’d been waiting for. Two people, side by side, looking straight ahead. I think C. S. Lewis was onto something. We don’t have music to reveal the direction of our lives, of course, but if we did, I’m pretty sure mine would have soared just then.”
― Rules for Visiting
― Rules for Visiting
“It’s almost painful, the way little children just trustingly hold out their hearts for you to look at—the way they haven’t learned yet how to conceal what matters to them, even if it’s just chewing gum or a plush dolphin or plastic binoculars.”
― Sandwich
― Sandwich
“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can’t cut something with it without cutting yourself.”
― The Wishing Game
― The Wishing Game
“There is always an unknown variable, and that unknown variable is often yourself. Embrace the mystery would be my advice. Embrace the impossibility of it all. Enjoy the not-knowing. Don’t rush to the wedding or the death or the amen.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
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