“The garden where you sit
Has never a need of flowers,
For you are the blossoms
And only a fool or the blind
Would fail to know it”
― Corelli’s Mandolin
Has never a need of flowers,
For you are the blossoms
And only a fool or the blind
Would fail to know it”
― Corelli’s Mandolin
“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
"Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"
I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”
― The Truth About Forever
"Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"
I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”
― The Truth About Forever
“Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid.”
― Corelli’s Mandolin
― Corelli’s Mandolin
“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”
― How to Make an American Quilt
― How to Make an American Quilt
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