How lucky they’d been to be raised by women who taught them what was most important in this world. Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters most.
Isabel remembered what books had meant to her so long ago, and she suddenly had a longing for all those fictional worlds that had helped her through the worst years of her life.
Maybe you’ll both be who you always were if you’re given time.
Don’t think this won’t happen to you,′ she hissed at all the pretty young girls passing by. ‘Youth is fleeting. It’s nothing but a dream. I’m where you’re going. I’m what you’ll be.
This is your heart that you hold in your hands, be careful with it, don’t lose it, and don’t forget that I loved you the same way even though you weren’t born to me.
Finding your soul mate is like coming home to a house where everything is familiar. You can walk in the dark and know where everything is.
Sally had returned to school for her degree in library science at Simmons University, and now, at the age of forty-four, she was the director of the Owens Library.
Spring was madness in New England, all the world cone to love at once.
Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality,” the boy said. When he saw the way Jet was looking at him he laughed. “I didn’t come up with that, Emily Dickinson.
You didn’t have to be cursed in love to know that when you loved someone you were open to great loss.
A lot of people don’t know what to do about grief. I don’t blame you for a thing.
Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and.
What is a daughter but good fortune, as complicated as she might be.
October began as a golden hour and ended with Samhain, the day when the worlds of the living and the dead opened to each other. There was no choice but to walk through the gate of time.
The house itself was tall and tilty, with green glass in the windows.
You were a boy. Life is a mess, that’s what Isabelle told me when I decided to have the child, but all we can do is live it.
Never Get Lost Oatmeal Cookies, great for hikes or adventures. Orange You Glad Cake, an orange loaf with buttercream icing, certain to cheer up the day. Sin No More Cinnamon Rolls, delicious and sticky, good for both the well behaved and the unruly.
Tuesdays were meant for accidents, disappointments, and bad news. Long ago, the day was considered to belong to Mars, the god of war and blood. Now it just meant trouble – it meant that your past could come back to haunt you.
Some things aren’t destined to be no matter how you might want them.
Black cats can do that to some people: They make them go all shivery and scared and remind them of dark.