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61 " The only way to feel truly alive is to start living fearlessly. "
― Leylah Attar , 53 Letters for My Lover (53 Letters for My Lover, #1)
62 " It's strange how someone can walk into your life, shatter the windows, break down your doors, scatter your belongings, and then walk away without having the slightest inkling of the storm they'd brought. "
― Leylah Attar , From His Lips (53 Letters for My Lover, #1.5)
63 " MaMaLu knew how to fix things—lost things, hurt things, cracked things, cut and bruised things. "
― Leylah Attar , The Paper Swan
64 " My heart thunders like the hooves of a thousand wild horses. "
65 " Vengeance only begets more vengeance, more chaos, more darkness. Vengeance abducts us and imprisons us and mutilates us, and we suffer and suffer until we unravel its probing parasitic suckers from around us. "
66 " Damian fucking Caballero laughed. And it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. "
67 " It was like we had found a pocket of quiet, where all the ghosts in our mind had gone to sleep, and we were the only two people awake. "
― Leylah Attar , Mists of the Serengeti
68 " You ever wonder what we’d find if we could pick up the threads back to the point where things unravel, where paths cross, and lives pivot, and people come together? "
69 " But sitting here before Troy Heathgate now, I'm teetering on a knife's edge between honor and disgrace. "
70 " Some circles never close, some wounds never heal. Love is like that. It leaves you forever open, forever vulnerable. I "
71 " I feel like a tree exposed to the elements, my roots clinging to the soil, my branches flirting with heaven. "
72 " You were born on a day when the clouds were big and swollen with rain,” my nanny would say as she stroked my hair. “We were ready for a storm, but the sun filtered through the sky. Your mother held you by the window and noticed the gold flecks in your little gray eyes. Your eyes were the color of the heavens that day. That is why she named you Skye, amorcito. "
73 " I wish I could hold your hand outside this room, go for a walk, sit on a patio, watch the world go by. "
74 " You know what, Rodel?” He reached across the table for my hand. “Everything is new when I’m with you. Food tastes better. Colors look brighter. Music is sweeter. I feel hungry for the world again. I want to go to the places I’ve skipped, I want to share them with you—show you who I am, who I was, who I can be. "
75 " What we don’t understand always scares us. "
76 " Are you an only child?""Yep.The sole beneficiary of all their love and affection."I put the frame away and look around."So what's it like?To have it all?""Like flying.Soaring.Until you come across the one thing you'd give it all up for,and can never have. "
77 " People plug in to you, and when they’re gone, you stop working for a while. You have to reconfigure yourself, rework your wiring, so you can get out of bed in the morning. "
78 " Family is family. Friends aren’t forever. Everything will break. People say goodbye. Get too close and you get hurt. "
79 " Every time the sun shines through the rain, I will look for you. I will look for you in rainbows, and I will remember a man who holds the whole sky in his eyes. "
80 " Sometimes we have to let go of the people we love because we love them—because their hopes and dreams lie elsewhere. It’s the reason I let you go, the reason I never asked you to stay. And it’s why Goma is letting me go, because my heart is already with you, all day, every day. So if you want me, always and forever, here I am. "