I like that you let yourself be surprised.
So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris.
I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I’ll show you a girl who can’t put her pants on. -Annik Marchand.
Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn’t care.
Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you’re also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I’m scared to be this happy. I’m scared to be this extreme.
She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
Carmen didn’t like change, and she certainly didn’t like endings.
She wasn’t as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she’d slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible.
The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true.
The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to.
The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.