Maia

“Sometimes the memories seemed too much and I couldn't understand how I'd stayed so calm when these things actually happened, but lost my breath in the shadowy remembrances.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“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.”
― Regina Sirois, 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.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Joe

“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.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings