I wonder if maybe all you do is meet people and lose them and your smile fades the further you go because you have to carry the
“She pressed her cheek against his heart and lay there, grateful for the time she’d had with him, however short or long it had been, grateful she had known him, grateful that once, when she was young, she had experienced a love so strong that it did not go away, that decades and distance and miles and children and lies and letters could never make it disappear. She held him in her arms and said to him all she needed to say.”
― The Stationery Shop
― The Stationery Shop
“One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”
― The Hunger Games
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”
― The Hunger Games
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