“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
“Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.”
“Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.”
“I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.”
“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.”
“Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.”
“People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.”
“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”
“When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.”
“When it comes to love, there is the timeworn caution that the very qualities you fall hardest for may be those you grow to despise. With Stavros, she wonders if the opposite might hold true: that this quality she nearly fears - his aversion to sanctifying the past - is something for which she will someday be grateful.”
“Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.”
“... we're all alive the day before we die ... but, how alive is another question.”
“We’re all alive the day before we die.”
“To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.”
“She loved the dogs as you’re supposed to love dogs: consistently”
“Mind what you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved. As”
“feel as if I’m visiting home in a dream, where everything yet nothing is the way it should be, where the best of what you have and what you wish for are briefly, tantalizingly united. Tealing”
“To love me, my family does not need to understand me.”
“Perhaps it is the heart that is the most supernatural thing of all, Not just because of the power it wields over mortals and gods but its ability to remain unchanged even in the face of peril or temptation. No curse, no spell, no creature on earth or in heaven can reroute its true course. What the heart loves, the heart will always truly love”
“I give you my life, my love, my soul,” I swore to her. “As long as I’m breathing, I’m yours.”
“—Sí, pero solo eso. Cada caricia, cada beso, cada momento compartido por los dos, preciosa…, nada de eso fue fingido. No quería fingir contigo. Quería que cada experiencia contigo, cada momento, fuese absolutamente real. Eres la primera persona a la que he dejado entrar en mí, la primera que ha visto quién soy yo de verdad entre tanta mentira. —Bajó el volumen de su voz al mínimo—: Eres la primera persona a la que he amado en toda mi vida, Alayna. Y sé que serás la última.”
“I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.”
“The currency there is imagination; instead of buying something with coins, you buy it with a good story. Libraries aren’t known as libraries but as “banks,” and every fairy tale is worth a fortune.”
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