Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.
My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn’t wear out the words.
The feelings cut too deep for them to be put on display.
Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most would cause you the most damage. How did you unlearn that? It was woven deep between every fiber and vessel. You couldn’t cut it out.
I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation.
One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow’s personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.
Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.
Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.
I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.
You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.
Here’s your hat, and by the way, I’m a virgin.
I’ve never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can’t be fixed by a conversation.
She wanted him to stop, but more than that, she wanted him to go on forever.
Great men don’t nessarily make good husbands.
Because I realized during the past few days that I can’t leave doubt in anyone’s mind about to whom you belong. Especially not yours.
You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.
It’s like your whole life you ’ve been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realise that somehow you ’ve caught her at the same time. And together, instead of falling, you might be able to fly.
Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.
Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?
Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.