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1 " I have so much to tell you,” he whispered against her face. “And not enough time.”“We have nothing but time now,” she said. “Come lie down with me. Tell me everything. We’ll talk forever. "
― Suanne Laqueur , Give Me Your Answer True (The Fish Tales, #2)
2 " you can let your sorrow accompany you on the road of life without letting it be the road itself. "
3 " It feels like your darkest time. But I think it’s going to be your finest hour. "
4 " ..she reached invisible hands to try him on. And found the warm jacket of his simplest self fit her perfectly. She pulled it close around her shoulders, drew her hair out from beneath its collar. "I like you," she whispered, lost in his eyes. You fit me, she thought. "
5 " Invisible fingers had reached into her mind that day, found the flame of memory and pinched it out. "
6 " Part of you still feels him. Because you never detached. You never fell out of love. "
7 " She began to court happiness and found it a coy, elusive lover. Her tentative joy was studded with the sharp edges of broken glass and her dreams began to twinkle with it. "
8 " I can't breathe without you. "
9 " Looking back was like flipping through a scrapbook underwater, a blurred collection of mementos stretching from May to August. Washed-out sepia tones. Pages stuck together, melding days into weeks. Weeks into months. "
10 " And every atom in her body was throwing itself on the floor in protest, beating fists and toes and yelling. Me. Want. Now. "
11 " Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. "
12 " He smiled like the sunrise, mouth stretching to show his teeth, cheekbones lifting to narrow his brown eyes. Their color made her think of the honey her mother drizzled into a shot of cognac - the Bianco cure-all for head colds and heartache. "
13 " A lot of times high school felt like a shipwreck. A social shipwreck with everyone in desperate survival mode and only one lifeboat. Everyone fighting for a seat, clinging to the sides and beating each other with oars to keep their spot. I can't stand that kind of chaos, when people create drama for the sake of it. "
14 " The day dawned bored and looking for trouble, and Daisy woke up needing to get high. "
15 " Of all the pleasures in life, lying down was in the top five. "
16 " It feels," he said. "Everything feels to my bones. It's like I have no skin. "
17 " His words shook through the phone. She gathered them up, clutching them tight to her ches "
18 " Daisy almost cancelled her next session, weary of self-introspection and dreading what would be the next thing to emerge from the dirt...she had to admit, she was feeling a shift deep within. Not a window shade snapping up to flood her with clarity, but a slow dawn made up of tiny insights. Things were shifting around in her head and heart and gut. Lining up. Matching edges. "