“Mi mamá contesto que no todas las historias de amor eran lindas. Que el amor podía acabarse. Que nuestra relación más larga era la que teníamos con nuestro propio cuerpo, con nuestra existencia. Y luego me miró y me dijo que yo era la dueña de mi cuerpo, no Daniel. Repitió: Tú eres la dueña de tu cuerpo ¿Entiendes?”
― Mary John
― Mary John
“But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it's time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“There are days when she mourns the prospect of another year, another decade, another century. There are nights when she cannot sleep, moments when she lies awake and dreams of dying.
But then she wakes, and sees the pink and orange dawn against the clouds, or hears the lament of a lone fiddle, the music and the melody, and remembers there is such beauty in the world.
And she does not want to miss it—any of it.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
But then she wakes, and sees the pink and orange dawn against the clouds, or hears the lament of a lone fiddle, the music and the melody, and remembers there is such beauty in the world.
And she does not want to miss it—any of it.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Listen to me. Life can feel very long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast. You better live a good life.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Reading lets us live in someone else’s shoes. Literature builds bridges; it makes our world larger, not smaller.”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
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