“I never could get close enough to you. In the months we were together, all I wanted was to love you more, to become part of you.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“Live every minute as if it’s your last, so when you’re my age, you have no regrets.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“Just because something’s hard and just because it makes both of us nervous doesn’t mean it isn’t worth it, Reese. Worth absolutely everything.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“After ten years of conflicting feelings, I’m suddenly not conflicted at all.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“What was that?” “Us,” he instantly replied. “Inescapable, unbreakable us.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“Don’t hold my hand in here. It’s hard for me to concentrate when you do.”
“You do realize that makes it even more tempting.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“I remember everything, Trent. Not just the bad, but the good, too.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“She loved the way he deepened the kiss, making her dizzy as he wound his fingers in her hair and angled her head, urging her mouth open wider as he kissed her more forcefully. Reese tore at his shirt, needing to see him, to feel his skin against hers.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“I love you, and I don’t expect you to tell me that back tonight. But I hope you’ll continue to open yourself up to the possibility of us. I promised to always love you, and I’ll do whatever it takes to be with you. And when I do, I’m praying that the only ‘Dear Trent’ note you’ll want to write in the future will be to tell me how much you love me. Just as much as I love you.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“God, you feel good, Reese. Like I’ve finally found the missing piece of me.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“I always need you, Reese,” he told her as he curled his body around hers the way he always used to. “Always.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“Reese is a caring, talented, intelligent woman with a big heart and a strong will.” Every word Trent spoke was filled with love. “I promise you that I will treat her as the love of my life, because that’s who she is.”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“I would be everything for you if I could.” “You very nearly are,”
― Bella Andre, quote from Cape Cod Promises
“Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.”
― Rebecca Skloot, quote from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“I was looking for the key for years
But the door was always open”
― Aravind Adiga, quote from The White Tiger
“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from A Room of One's Own
“Dr. Y. Hiraiwa, professor of Hiroshima University of Literature and Science, and one of my church members, was buried by the bomb under the two storied house with his son, a student of Tokyo University. Both of them could not move an inch under tremendously heavy pressure. And the house already caught fire. His son said, ‘Father, we can do nothing except make our mind up to consecrate our lives for the country. Let us give Banzai to our Emperor.’ Then the father followed after his son, ‘Tenno-heika, Banzai, Banzai, Banzai!’ . . . In thinking of their experience of that time Dr. Hiraiwa repeated, ‘What a fortunate that we are Japanese! It was my first time I ever tasted such a beautiful spirit when I decided to die for our Emperor.”
― John Hersey, quote from Hiroshima
“The road looked as if no one had traveled on it in months.
"It's not much farther," the grandmother said and just as she said it, a horrible thought came to her. The thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up, upsetting her valise in the corner. The instant the valise moved, the newspaper top she had over the basket under it rose with a snarl and Pitty Sing, the cat, sprang onto Bailey's shoulder.
The children were thrown to the floor and their mother, clutching the baby, was thrown out the door onto the ground; the old lady was thrown into the front seat. The car turned over once and landed right-side-up in a gulch off the side of the road. Bailey remained in the driver's seat with the cat gray-striped with a broad white face and an orange nose clinging to his neck like a caterpillar.
As soon as the children saw they could move their arms and legs, they scrambled out of the car, shouting, "We've had an ACCIDENT!" The grandmother was curled up under the dashboard, hoping she was injured so that Bailey's wrath would not come down on her all at once. The horrible thought she had had before the accident was that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee.”
― Flannery O'Connor, quote from A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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