“I miss her, though,” he says quietly. My chest tightens. “So do I. So much so, sometimes I feel like I can’t even breathe.”
― Everything We Never Said
― Everything We Never Said
“What if when you go through the bad thing, the good thing’s on the other end? Or if you respond to the bad thing in the right way, you get the good thing?” My first thought is that I wonder — I hope — that he is thinking the same thing I am. That maybe we had to go through losing everything to meet each other again. And that’s the good thing. “Maybe. Maybe things aren’t supposed to be easy. Maybe we’re supposed to work for it,” I say. “Why, do you believe in fate?”
― Between Two Skies
― Between Two Skies
“What’s going to happen to us?” “I can’t tell you that. The one thing I know about life is that it always moves forward, not backward. The thing is, cherie” — she looks me straight in the eye — “things have to break down for the new thing to come in. That’s how nature works. The old leaves fall so the new ones can come in. There’s a season for everything. We can’t stop it, and we shouldn’t want to. Are you sure you’re looking forward and not back?”
― Between Two Skies
― Between Two Skies
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