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?
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.
I regard my Christian faith as the greatest gift I’ve ever been given, and I will dwell no more on this except to say that in retrospect, I think I always knew there was something missing in my life.
Don’t know. There’s a lot of magic between you, ain’t no denying that. And magic makes forgettin’ hard.” Tuck patted him on the back and got up to leave. It was more than he’d ever said to Dawson about Amanda. As he walked away, Dawson squinted into the sunlight and the tears started again. He knew that Amanda would always be the very best part of him, the self he would always long to know.
But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn’t foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.
That’s where the irony came in, Jeremy thought. After all, it wasn’t as if people needed to have children. No, he knew that having a child was essentially about two things: It was the next logical step in a relationship, but secretly it was also a deep-down desire to create a miniaturized version of “you.” As in “you’re” so special, it was simply inconceivable that the world should be burdened with the fact that there’s only one of “you” to go around.
The sands in the hourglass have fallen without mercy throughout my life, but I try to remind myself of the blessed years that we shared – especially now, when I am drowning in riptides of sorrow and loss.