“Debbie often talked about Gretchen as if she was his mistress. But to Archie it sometimes felt like the other way around. As if, by moving back in with his ex-wife, he was cheating on Gretchen.
That was probably worthy of bringing up in therapy”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“I like to think of you not being able to end your suffering,' she said.
'I like to think of you not being able to satisfy your blood-lust,' he said.”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“His whole relationship with Gretchen was one long postcoital illusion”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“Gretchen's eyes blazed at Henry. 'Don't ever think you can know what I'll do”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“a face that looked like it had been whittled out of driftwood.”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“Women move through the world never knowing their power.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“He opened his palm and saw that the watch remained. Still there. Still real.
Varen looked up at the figure that stood atop the fountain.
With a howl of rage, he made it burst apart.
He fell to his knees amid the wreckage and floating dust.
Crumpling into himself, he released a choking sob, knowing that he, too, belonged to the ruin.”
― Kelly Creagh, quote from Enshadowed
“Just so you know. I fucking loved you. I fucking loved the daylights out of you.”
― Andrea Portes, quote from Anatomy of a Misfit
“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“There is no way to stop. Writers go on writing long after it becomes financially unnecessary...because it hurts less to write than it does not to write.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
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