“I, for one, am ready for a lot more adventure and a lot less nothing.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“I don’t stay anywhere. I visit. I observe. I leave. I don’t ever stay.”
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with this information. Tell him to leave? Tell him to stay? But I don’t have time to consider any other alternatives, because he scoots in closer and brings his hands to my face, and I fall back into the bookcase as he kisses me with this intensity—like he wants to be here, and if he kisses me just long enough, deeply enough, none of what he just said will actually be true.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“I stood there and stared at it—this colorful expanse of paper, with its topographic mountain ranges and changeable shades of blue to depict the various depths of the ocean—and saw a map of the world, but knew it wasn’t mine. My world was much, much smaller”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“I'm completely in love with you. What if I didn't leave, after all?”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Poner a prueba el destino y jugar con el no siempre tiene consecuencias evidentes e inmediatas, al final algo acaba saliendo mal.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Cualquiera que desee viajar puede encontrar el modo de hacerlo. Solo tiene que desplegar su creatividad.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Al final estaré tan solo como al principio.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Da igual si estaba escrito o no; no me corresponde a mí cambiarlo solo porque puedo.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“And I just keep going and going, picking up pins and stabbing them into the paper until the map is covered with places I’ll never see and the clear plastic box is as empty as I am.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“When I look around at this ‘normal’ life you’re so eager to leave, I don’t see boring or predictable—I see friends who love you and a family that would make any sacrifice for your happiness. I see the kind of security I’ve never had and always wanted. I may have given you access to the world I know best, but you and your family have given me a world that doesn’t exist on a map.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Puoi portarmi ovunque. Oppure da nessuna parte. Ma in qualunque posto sarai su questa terra, è lì che vorrei essere anche io.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
Tamara Ireland Stone
Born place: Frankfurt, Germany
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“The silence was oddly comfortable, broken by the clink of cutlery and passing of the dishes. She was torn between joining them at the table or shunning them as she’d done in the past. Finally she sat down, Red Shirt across from her. His plate was full, but he made no move to eat. Instead his tan fingers toyed with the knife and fork, turning them over as if contemplating what to do next. He shot a glance at her, lingering on her hands as she draped a napkin across her lap and took up her own utensils. Was he trying to copy her . . . perhaps please her? His hesitancy was so touching she swallowed down the ache in her throat with a forkful of potato. He followed with a forkful of his own and eyed her as she picked up her knife. He did the same, but slowly, cutting his meat by pinning it properly with his fork first. She could feel Pa’s eyes on them both—no doubt he was enjoying their peculiar interaction. At the end of the table sat Surrounded, missing nothing, but shunning utensils as was his custom.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Courting Morrow Little
“It’s as though I went down to Disneyland and assassinated Mickey Mouse.”
― Stuart Gibbs, quote from Belly Up
“You're staring at me again," Ash murmured without turning his head, though one corner of his lips quirked up. His silver eyes danced mischievously. "Is it the uniform? Perhaps I should remove it it it's distracting."
"Behave, Ash." I wrinkled my nose at him, smiling.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from Iron's Prophecy
“Mass action by everyday black people was just as powerful a tool for social change as the lawsuit, and maybe more so. If”
― quote from Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, JR., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
“Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?”
― Megan Hart, quote from Dirty
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