“My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness.”
― The Forgotten Room
― The Forgotten Room
“I’ve always thought my attraction to water was because it offers an unending source of renewal. It’s there with each wave—with each tide. Always wiping the shore clean of all imperfections in time for the next tide.”
― Flight Patterns
― Flight Patterns
“There is an unease in you, too, which I sensed. You remind me of an anchor searching for a spot to latch on to.”
― The House on Tradd Street
― The House on Tradd Street
“Because a garden is the heart of a house, where love is the seed and the dark earth like a mother who nurtures her saplings until they bloom, and then waits for them with furrowed arms to return. It is the story told again and again from my garden: from dust we begin, and to dust we will return again.”
― The House on Tradd Street
― The House on Tradd Street
“Do I want to know where I came from? Yes. But that doesn’t impact who I want to be.”
― The Forgotten Room
― The Forgotten Room
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