Mariana

“My love for her is the closest thing I have to religion.”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her

“I think we all wear armor. I think those who don’t are fools, risking the pain of being wounded by the sharp edges of the world, over and over again. But if I’ve learned anything from those fools, it is that to be vulnerable is a strength most of us fear. It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“Making people leave her before they chose to go anyway. Same result in the end, because everybody left eventually, but it hurt less. That was what life was, choosing the way that hurt less.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“The reality is, what you imagined will never happen, and what you remembered is already done”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her