“I'd had the conversation I'd been dreading all summer. I'd gone into the rooms I'd kept closed. I'd fallen in love and felt my heart break, and I'd heard than I wanted to hear, and I was on my feet. The beautiful lies were all gone. Destroyed. And I was still upright.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“Her breakthrough comes as breakthroughs often do: by long and prepared accident.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“The maid said no, for she had a sense of the fragility of things, and she felt she was a small plant in a small patch of soil held between the rocks of a dry and windy place, and she was not wanted by the world, and here she was at least known, and she was tolerated, and that was a blessing.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“I tried to imagine cabin fever. I tried to imagine this getting old: that smile, those rumpled clothes, the language only Gus and I spoke, the joking and crying and touching and not touching.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“I like this... Let's always believe in the best in each other. That's how we'll make it work.”
― It Had to Be You
― It Had to Be You
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