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1 " When he looks back at me, his eyes travel around my face the way fingers dart through the bottom of a drawer, searching for batteries in a blackout. "
― Holly Schindler , Playing Hurt (Lake of the Woods Love Stories Book 1)
2 " The heart is a compass, steers us back to the thing we loved the most. "
3 " History is who we are right now. I mean, just because a chapter of life is over, it isn't gone...(Page 303) "
4 " My tears are like a whole pack of dogs on leashes; no matter how I try to tug them back, they just keep barreling forward. "
5 " Just touching her makes me want to immerse myself, put my head completely under the surface of her. I want to drift, to let her carry me away, down her current. "
6 " His skin radiates so much of the day's heat that touching him feels like wading into the lake, opening my hand, and catching one of the white shimmers of blistering afternoon sunlight bouncing across the water. "
7 " I feel as exposed as a sweatshirt worn wrong-side-out, or like pocket linings dangling outside of a pair of jeans. My heart, my hope, hang in the afternoon sun. "
8 " ...Early summer fireflies are beginning to dance above the spindly green stalks of weeds like lonesome boys looking for something beautiful and shiny to flash back at them. Lovers looking for someone to love. "
9 " A camera winks at me from high in the bleachers like we're sharing a secret. Fans in the home section of the Fair Grove High gym smile in envy as I hurry toward the bench, wishing some winking camera had ever, in their entire lives, shared a secret with them. "
10 " The heart is a compass. It points you to the thing you love the most. "
11 " The heart is a compass, steers us back to the thing we loved the most "
