“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seem limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.”
― The Body
― The Body
“I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.”
― The Last Olympian
― The Last Olympian
“Love isn't soft, like
those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never
close.”
― The Body
those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never
close.”
― The Body
“Speech destroys the functions of love, I think…If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. The word is the harm. Love isn't what these…poets...want you to think it is.”
― The Body
― The Body
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life”
― The Body
― The Body
Paxton’s 2024 Year in Books
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Chick-lit, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Psychology, Romance, Suspense, and Thriller
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