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“I wanted to ask them how they had tamed love so that it did not break them, trample them, defeat them. I doubted they would have understood the question. Love seemed docile and easy in their hands.”
― On Little Wings
― On Little Wings
“I wanted to preserve this moment, this slice of time when the night was cool and bright with reflected moonlight and the possibility of a kiss hung between us, full of unspent promise. Every event in my life after this would be different because I would have been kissed.”
― Bewitching
― Bewitching
“I knew it wouldn't last, that the reality would come snaking back in, but for a moment I saw it, the futility of trying to mold love into an expected shape. The foolishness of whining when it didn't fit.”
― On Little Wings
― On Little Wings
“Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.”
― Betsy and Joe
― Betsy and Joe
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