“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
“This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now.
I get it, and I want more.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Dreams of Gods & Monsters
“A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time. Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.”
― Alan Lightman, quote from Einstein's Dreams
“Indeed, no one should see too much of their own history or future.”
― Kristen Britain, quote from Green Rider
“A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven”
― Kate Morton, quote from The Secret Keeper
“She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.”
― Jean Rhys, quote from Wide Sargasso Sea
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