“I think I’ve spent so long waiting for it all to begin, for life to really start, that I missed out on what it was really all about.”
― Not Quite Dead Yet
― Not Quite Dead Yet
“I find myself thinking that maybe every bit of heartbreak in life can be rearranged and used for something beautiful, that it doesn't really matter whether I chose this path or I was born onto it, so long as I stop and appreciate the path itself.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Heart the Lover
― Heart the Lover
“Sometimes the people you loved left you halfway through a story. Sometimes they left you without a goodbye. And, sometimes, they stayed around in little ways. In the memory of a musical. In the smell of their perfume. In the sound of the rain, and the itch for adventure, and the yearning for that liminal space between one airport terminal and the next. I hated her for leaving, and I loved her for staying as long as she could. And I would never wish this pain on anyone.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
“Love isn’t something you can cup in your hands, and I have to believe that means it’s something that can’t ever be lost.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
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