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41 " She only hoped, and her hope was slender- a wisp of hope, a ghost. "
― Marisa de los Santos , Love Walked In (Love Walked In, #1)
42 " Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears... "
43 " 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. "
44 " 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. "
45 " But our little stories were glimpses into the interior; colorful postcards from the lands of Martin and Cornelia. "
46 " 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. "
47 " 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. "
48 " ...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. "
49 " 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. "
50 " Good intentions, talented players, everyone trying hard. Just bad casting. "
51 " Besides, some things just can’t make the leap from past to present, and that hat was not a leaper. "
52 " When it happens— the great sea change, the alteration of one’s life into something rich and strange— when it singles one out, one is always lucky, lucky automatically. I’m talking about transformation, and the transformation I’m talking about is always a gift. A blessing. "
53 " I cranked open my third-floor casement window, looked at Philadelphia- my piece of it- and let my affection for it lift lightly off me like a scent from a flower and drift out into the cool air. "
54 " When I pointed to the list, he read it quickly, then said, “I wish I’d known what was happening. I wish she’d told me,” so ruefully that I wanted to touch him and did. "
55 " I’m not sure what I’ll do next, though. The problem with me is that I like to work; I like to do what I do well and completely; I just don’t have a calling. Not yet, anyway, "
56 " ...I'd figured out that a real life didn't mean attaining my heart's desire, but knowing it, meant not in the satisfaction, but the longing. Knowing what you love and why, I found out, is as real as it gets. "
57 " Such meanness served up in the sweetest tones, and to someone whose need for love was terrible in its completeness. "
58 " At first she was happy because she had decided to be, and then she relaxed into her happiness and just felt it. "
59 " It was an answer I should have savored; instead, it gave rise to that moment. You know what I mean. The moment in a relationship in which at the same time you discover you’ve been floating in air for five and a half weeks, you also discover that your feet have dropped a little closer to the earth. "
60 " I won’t gush about his appearance, except to say that he was beautiful in the way certain handcrafted wooden objects are beautiful—so seamless, smooth, curved, lustrous, so fully realized and self-contained that it only strikes you seconds later and with the force of a lightning bolt: “Oh my God, that’s a chair!” At which point, you sit down and want to stay forever. "