He has two hunting dogs. The bright star over there is Sirius, and that’s part of Canis Major, and Procyon is part of Canis Minor.” Travis.
His death had left her with an emptiness that she knew would never fill completely. But time had lessened the pain.
Because people don’t always want the truth. Like when your girlfriend asks if a particular outfit makes her look fat, you should tell her she looks beautiful.
I miracoli sono autentici e possono verificarsi a dispetto dell’ordine naturale delle cose.
I realize that I don’t know where to start. Not because I’m unsure of my story, but because I’m not sure why I feel compelled to tell it in the first place. What can be achieved by unearthing the past?
Sometimes, despite the structured chaos always associated with mornings, they would simply lie together in each other’s arms for a few more minutes, as if drawing the strength to face the upcoming day.
It was a myth that every mother and daughter were best friends, but friendship was far less important than family. Friends came and went; family was always there.
We spend so much time making up for things we failed to say...
But for a while, it was surprisingly easy to overlook our obvious differences. And we did.
He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he’d been so lucky to find her.
Dusk, I realized then, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time.
Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could. At the deepest level, he’d come to understand that life could end at any moment, and it was better to be happy than busy.
But wasn’t a relationship supposed to be just that? A relationship? Both partners doing everything they could to keep the other satisfied?
Miles didn’t know what to believe.
It wasn’t as if a light had suddenly blinked on; it was more like a sunrise, where the sky grows lighter and lighter, almost imperceptibly, before you realized it was morning.
Despite her best intentions, she was beginning to accept the reality of the attraction she felt for him.
We met on a Wednesday morning, and I’d fallen in love with him by Thursday evening.
She wanted people to know that love often lies in wait, ready to bloom when least expected.
These days, kids are scheduled from morning to night because parents have demanded it, and London has been no exception.
My mother laughed and told me she was only doing what mothers have always done for their sons. Then she told me that it was my job to prove that she hadn’t been lying, because that’s what sons were supposed to do for their mothers.