I thought then of the mastery she once displayed over me, back at Lockless, back in my father’s library, and how it had, in this moment especially, fled from her, and it occurred to me then that it really was all an illusion, that this
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“She wished for Mr. Warren or Aunt Della or Uncle Syd to come and help them. Her mom knew how to do lots of things. She knew how to find blueberries and catch fish and shoot a gun, but Emaleen was worried that she didn’t know how to keep them safe.”
― Black Woods, Blue Sky
― Black Woods, Blue Sky
“When you love someone, Michael, you fight for them in every way you know how.”
― The Kiss Quotient
― The Kiss Quotient
“He’s the one who taught me what love looked like and felt like and then taught me it’s a lie. I have never been able to come back from that.”
― Twice in a Blue Moon
― Twice in a Blue Moon
“And I know the past isn’t a mirror image of the future, but it’s a reflection of what can be; and when your first love breaks your heart, the shards of that can still draw blood for a long, long time.”
― With the Fire on High
― With the Fire on High
“I think the fact that I never got to fall out of love with him—that I just had to keep moving forward, stumbling into something new and totally different—means that my brain and heart don’t know the protocol here.”
― Twice in a Blue Moon
― Twice in a Blue Moon
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