Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.
I don’t know if spirits do indeed roam the world, but even if they do, I will sense your presence everywhere. When I listen to the ocean, it will be your whispers; when I see a dazzling sunset, it will be your image in the sky.
If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.
And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.
She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.
I’m not saying it because I’m sweet. I’m saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.
What happens if a car comes? We die.
Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he’d always identified with poets.
He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.
America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.
Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?
I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.
If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.
Even though he was here, she couldn’t quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing.
Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life’s mysteries. But there is nothing.
I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.
If it came down to that, I’d protect you in a heartbeat.
Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn’t know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she’d never thought possible. Knowledge isn’t everything, she told herself, and she knew then that, in Nana’s words, he was the toast to her butter.
I’m writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.