“But he can't promise he won't hurt me so I don't know how to promise I'll stay.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“He laughs and for some reason it sounds like I'm ringing the doorbell of the home I grew up in.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“She doesn’t know that I’m a wolf and Parks is the moon whose name I’ve howled since I was fifteen.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“It was just easier to consider the possibility that he’d changed his entire personality overnight than it was to believe that he would cheat. But he’s the same Ken I’ve always known and loved and still eats a turkey sandwich every day. It’s just that he’s capable of things I never knew.”
― Evidence of the Affair
― Evidence of the Affair
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