Bianca

“So many things she would have done differently. Regret, she has found, is the loud thing that’s left.”
― Laura Spence-Ash, Beyond That, the Sea

“She was right, you know, Abbey Hanley—she said beautiful—can’t you see it?” Up close she was light but visceral, she could keep you alive with her pleading; the pain in her good-green eyes. “Can’t you see I’ll never leave you, Clay? Can’t you see I’ll never leave?” Clay looked like he might fall then. Carey wrapped him tightly. She just held him and hugged him and whispered to him, and he felt all her bones within her. She smiled and cried and smiled. She said, “Go to The Surrounds. Go on Saturday night.” She kissed him on the neck there, and pressed the words all down. “I’ll never leave you, ever—” and that’s how I like to remember them:”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay

“We love people for all sorts of different reasons and in all sorts of different ways, she says. Remember that. And it only gets better, the older you get. Young love isn’t necessarily the best love.”
― Laura Spence-Ash, Beyond That, the Sea

“He would suffer before he’d belong, unable to show himself easily; a preference for greater hope—to find someone who would know him completely.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay