“This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“Don't worry about it. I'd have dumped me too if I was on a romantic date with that!”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“Good morning, beautiful, call when you're awake. xx Adam.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“You are one scary girl. Beautiful, amazing, magical, but damn scary.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“Pencil me in for another sleep date soon.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“I thought you were dead."
"Me too, baby, me too," he said weakly.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“I no longer wanted to feel displaced.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“Love is never worth giving up on.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“We can’t bet our lives away on something that might be. We can cross that bridge if we come to it”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
Leigh Fallon
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“A man can see a hundred women, lust for a thousand more, but it is one scent that will open his eyes and turn him to love.”
― C.S. Richardson, quote from The End of the Alphabet
“The moral of the story, Son," Pun would say, "is Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off on your heels."
Of all lessons, that one I never learned and I hope I never do. My heart daily grows new foliage, always adding people, picking up new heartaches like a wool coat collects cockleburs and beggar's-lice seeds. It gets fuller and fuller as I walk slow as a sloth, carrying all the pain Pun and Frank and so many others tried to walk from. Especially the pain of the lost forest. Sometimes there is no leaving, no looking westward for another promised land. We have to nail our shoes to the kitchen floor and unload the burden of our heart. We have to set to the task of repairing the damage done by and to us.”
― Janisse Ray, quote from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“In seinem Verhalten schien eine kryptische, sardonische Arroganz zu lauern, als ödeten ihn alle menschlichen Wesen nur noch an.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
“We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn’t as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from A Lion Among Men
“If you get stuck and are not sure what to do, try something.”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
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