You can’t avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
It’s when you don’t need something that you tend to lose it.
Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.
The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there’s nothing anyone can do or say. It’s broken.
My brain said no. But my heart!
The only love she inspires is the canine kind.
Why do two people fall in love? It’s a mystery.
People, you’ll find, aren’t usually all good or bad. Sometimes they’re just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they’re mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn.
In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you’re on your way to do something else.
But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.
It was a nice day, and I don’t mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.
On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that’s not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.
Betty inhales sharply, ‘It’s just I thought I had lost you forever.’ Oh, Betty, don’t you know there’s no such thing as forever?
If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.
On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen...
There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.
It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.
Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.