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121 " Leaning on a cane, with a book tucked under her free arm, she navigated carefully across the grass, her eyes on the ground, and then just as she got to where we sat, she raised her head - her white hairs starry as dandelion fluff in the morning sun - and smiled at me. "Courage, dear heart," she said in a ringing, surprisingly young voice, then dropped her eyes and walked on. "
― Marisa de los Santos
122 " She thought about that word “capture,” how it put a writer on par with a fur trapper or big-game hunter, and how it implied that stories were whole and roaming around loose in the world, and a writer’s job was to catch them. "
― Marisa de los Santos , Love Walked In (Love Walked In, #1)
123 " She found that if she paid extremely careful attention to what was around her, really concentrating, and noticing every detail, the terror would fall back. "
124 " But our little stories were glimpses into the interior; colorful postcards from the lands of Martin and Cornelia. "
125 " No one is truly interesting until he is in graduate school,” pronounced Wilson. "
― Marisa de los Santos , The Precious One
126 " It was a good way to begin. I’ve found that almost everything is better when it starts with a joke and a mouthful of really great food. "
― Marisa de los Santos , Saving Lucas Biggs
127 " I’d figured out that a real life didn’t mean attaining my heart’s desire, but knowing it, meant not the satisfaction, but the longing. Knowing what you love and why, I found out, is as real as it gets. "
128 " Never, ever lie, unless it’s to spare someone’s feelings or to weasel out of something you really don’t want to do, but only if not doing that something will not result in bodily or even psychic harm to another human being, unless that human being is exceptionally mean in which case minor psychic harm is permissible”—my "
129 " The woman who picked us up when we fell down or wiped our faces or fed us lunch or yelled us down from treetops or out of mud (all of it so casually, with barely a break in the conversation or an extra breath) may have been our mother but could just as easily have been someone else's. We hardly noticed. The women merged into a kind of laughing, chatting, benevolent blur, a network of distracted love and safekeeping. "
― Marisa de los Santos , Belong to Me (Love Walked In, #2)
130 " She feels like the subject of her sex life is a puppy or a ferret, something she’d never in her right mind let off its leash, but which is now somehow running amok among total strangers. "
131 " He pictured the black dot on the map again. Not very long ago, Dev had believed in the dot's randomness, but now the dot was houses, friends, trees, poems, fiery leaves snagged in his rake, his bike wheels on asphalt. He imagined the dot grown larger and printed with the words on his Milky Way poster: YOU ARE HERE. "
132 " I tried to tell him all the things I hadn't told him before. How it was both our faults, how I'd taken over with the kids and not let the two of us be in that together. Mostly, I wanted him to understand the real reason I'd thought our marriage was over. It was over because we forgot to stay in love. Both of us. "
133 " Talking turned out to be Louise’s talent. If talking were a sport, Louise would’ve been a marathoner. "
― Marisa de los Santos , I'll Be Your Blue Sky (Love Walked In, #3)
134 " Dev felt suddenly ashamed of himself for what he'd thought earlier, back in the car, that Lyssa should keep her craziness to herself, that having to feel compassion for a messed-up, hurting person was annoying and unfair. "
135 " too. Like I’m an outside person watching me do things. Except when I’m with you. Then, I’m on the inside. "
― Marisa de los Santos , I'd Give Anything
136 " I am not necessarily a balanced person by nature, but I try. When I think a bad thought, I try to balance it out with a happy one. It doesn’t work all the time, but if I do say so myself, over the years, I’ve gotten good at it. "
137 " hydrofracking” (often just “fracking”).” In a nutshell, hydrofracking (or “induced hydraulic fracturing”) is the process of injecting highly pressurized, chemical-laced fluid into a rock layer far below the surface of the earth in order to make cracks in it, and then to use the cracks to get to fossil fuels that you couldn’t get to before because they were so deeply buried. "
138 " ...as far as I can tell, no matter what the circumstances, parenthood is thrust upon a parent. No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice. "
139 " What she came to was that even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness. "
140 " Good intentions, talented players, everyone trying hard. Just bad casting. "