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21 " You know what I mean. That moment in a relationship in which, at the same time you discover you've been floating in air for 5 and 1/2 weeks you also discover that your feet have dropped a little closer to earth. "
― Marisa de los Santos , Love Walked In (Love Walked In, #1)
22 " But every time, what brought me to my senses was my conviction that before a person dropped a new life into this world, she should probably get a real one herself. "
23 " All those films in which the woman doesn't get her man, those films of yearning unsatisfied, hearts unappeased. You like them; I've liked them too. But I'll tell you what: try belonging body and soul to a man who will never belong to you; see how well you like those films then. "Don't ask for the moon-we have the stars!" ... "Pardon me saying so, but fuck the fucking stars! "
24 " Soldiers in the heat of battle; death-row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired and bewildered: we all wanted our mothers. "
25 " But you're wrong. Happiness is EARNED, like everything else. It's achieved. "
26 " Whatever word you use to describe diving into the deepest part of a human. Take your pick; they're all woefully inadequate, but they're also all we have. "
27 " My life - my real life - started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit, and, yes I know how that sounds. "
28 " It's ok to feel happy, right? She hoped he'd know what she meant. "
29 " The examples seemed to fall into two categories: girls who used sweetness and girls who used pluck. "
30 " Linney moves in the world with such firm, certain steps, being with her can make you forget your own confusion, at least for a little while. "
31 " Clare concentrated on the words trying hard to press them into her memory and wishing they were solid objects that she could keep and carry around with her. "
32 " If I were to ever have a full-fledged vocation, as opposed to a half-assed avocation, I needed to love it and, in my experience, it isn't always easy to figure out what you love. "
33 " ...I walked up the stairs to my apartment, carrying the moment carefully as though it were a glass globe full of butterflies. "
34 " In my experience, people love what they love. They just do. Or fail to love what they fail to love. "
35 " Like love was a habit you couldn't break. "
36 " That was how her mother was, catching all the available light in any room and making it part of her. "
37 " She thought about why she wanted to go home, even though her father was nice to her. Maybe it was because he forgot the names of people she’d just finished telling him about and because he sometimes asked the same questions twice. But the thing that made her feel dull and almost invisible was the way his gaze would drift sideways or over her shoulder as she spoke. His attention was like a child’s when there’s a television on in a room, and Clare could sense his eyes scanning as though another, better daughter might skip into view at any moment. "
38 " All the books she’d read had taught her nothing about what you do when your mother doesn’t die but turns into someone you don’t know, someone who doesn’t take care of you anymore. "
39 " fog, how the thing of it was it really was "
40 " Her head had been hurting for days, but under the falling water, the headache opened like a rose- bright red, layered, and complicated. "