I got precious little time for you to belong to me. I’m gonna make sure it isn’t any shorter than it has to be.
The constellation she’s named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster – punishment for her mother Casseopeia, who had bragged to Poseidon about her own beauty. Perseus, flying by, fell in love with Andromeda and saved her. In the sky, she’s pictured with her arms outstretched and her hands chained.
Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have done both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.
I don’t want their help,” he explodes. “I don’t want to be someone who needs their help. I want to be just like everyone else, you know, not a special case.
Science never failed to humble him, just as much as his faith, and he unequivocally believed that the two could exist side by side.
My mother nods toward Violet and her little friend, sprinkling grass over their mud pies. “This has been going on so much longer than either of us, Kennedy. From where you stepped in, in your life, it looks like we’ve got miles to go. But me?” She smiles in the direction of the girls. “I look at that, and I guess I’m amazed at how far we’ve come.” –.
Your father used to say that being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to” Queen Maureen said “And he used to tell me he was scared all the time.
Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what’s in front of us. And sometimes, we don’t see clearly at all.
We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less.
What twisted deity would grant you the superpower of fatherhood to protect someone who, one day, would not need you?
The first time I read Gone with the Wind and Rhett walked out on Scarlett, I was fifteen and thought all that unrequited love was wildly romantic. The second time I read it, last summer, I thought she was silly and he was a selfish pig.
I love the way he smelled whenever his head dipped close to hear what I was saying – like the sun striking th cheek of a tomato, or soap drying in the hood of a car. I loved the way his hand felt on my spine. I loved.
In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies.
Suicides, almost by definition, are all ghosts – stuck earthbound because they are desperate to apologize to their loved ones or because they are so ashamed of themselves.
I wondered what it would be like to not give a damn about what people thought of you.
It is a strange thing, being suddenly motherless. It’s like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much mind to before now. Who will teach me how to parent, how to deal with the unkindness of strangers, how to be humble? You already did, I realize.
He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name.
Most of the time, the words that were not written were the ones you needed the most.
At any moment, a person can start over. And that’s not half a life, but simply a real one.
She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.