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1 " Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. "
― Laura Miller , Butterfly Weeds (Butterfly Weeds, #1)
2 " Words are great, but even I can admit they have certain short-comings. No word can ever give justice to a smile from a man who never smiled or to an old woman who gives up her seat on the bus to a soldier who lost his leg. And I’m still convinced there’s no word out there for the feeling you get the first time you ever hit home plate or bury your first dog or muster up enough courage to tell a girl you love her. "
― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident
3 " She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name. "
― Laura Miller , My Butterfly (Butterfly Weeds, #2)
4 " The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds. "
5 " Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone. "
6 " But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it’s been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded—that’s how I feel about her. She wasn’t there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed. "
7 " A part of me will probably always be waitin’ for her. And even when I get to the end of this life and she’s not there, I think I’ll still just wait. It’s the cruel reality of love, I think—that once you find it, it’s yours to carry. And even if you lose it and never find it back again, I think you still just keep on carrying it...and waitin’—long after the curtain closes. "
8 " We’re all livin’ in the past...we’re really always eighty milliseconds behind life happenin’. ...that’s how long it takes our brains to comprehend what’s already taken place right in front of our eyes. So, I guess I’m not alone. Everyone’s livin’ in the past, to some extent. I’ve just become a prisoner of mine. ... I’ve become a prisoner—willingly. But then I guess you really can’t be called a prisoner if you willingly carry the chains. "
9 " I set my face toward the sun again, and I think about my old life—the one I feel as though I’ve abandoned somehow. It hurts to think of it that way. And even though I know it wasn’t perfect, I look back now, and all I see is perfection. Every soft whisper, every spoken word, every gentle touch—it’s all perfect. Time won’t let me see it otherwise. They’re all just perfect memories—perfect, untouchable moments that came and went so softly that they almost feel as if they were always just a dream. "
― Laura Miller , For All You Have Left
10 " The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets. "
11 " She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory–forever there to complicate the present, forever there to remind us that it will always be a piece of us. I never had a clue as to what she meant, until now. "
12 " Big events, small, mundane moments of the day–it doesn’t matter; the past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it. "
13 " She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think. "
14 " I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I’ve learned you don’t so easily get it back. "
15 " Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities. "
16 " I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back. "
17 " Little girl, little boyIf love has a wayFill their fields with laughterAnd scatter the sun on their dayAnd if it should happen to rainMake their raindrops kissesStraight from heaven aboveThat touch their hands and facesAnd that fill them with loveAnd make the moon reflect their smilesAnd their stars plentyAnd, above all, keep them togetherAnd hold them as you mayForever and everUntil their last day. "
18 " Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for. "
19 " I’ll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck. "
20 " Because I seeA rainstorm in JuneJust before the sunThe black of nightJust before the starsAnd, girl, I see your ghostJust before our dawn "
