Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.
I had waited for the tears to stop before I called him, waited until my whole body was empty and dry, hard as a fist. But now I felt the sadness rising again in my chest.
Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere.
Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.
This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn’t yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn’t meant to be yours, it won’t be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.
That was the problem with getting used to people – you had to miss them when they were gone.
But the places we come from don’t leave us as easily as we leave them.
Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!