“But right on the heels of that feeling, that suspicion that all is not yet lost, comes the urge to tell my mother, tell her that I am okay today, that I have felt something close to happiness, that I might still be capable of feeling happy. She will want to know that. But I can’t tell her. That’s the wall I always slam into on a good morning like this. My mother will be worrying about me, and I can’t tell her that I’m okay.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I was just a moment, and you gave me a million Junes.
I was just a moment, and you made me forever.”
― A Million Junes
I was just a moment, and you made me forever.”
― A Million Junes
“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“They met far away from here, but she was a little piece of home to him, so he swept her up and brought her back with him, because he wanted all the home he could have in one place.”
― A Million Junes
― A Million Junes
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