It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.
Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls.
“if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.”
“When it rains," her father said "it pours.”
“To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.”
“What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care.”
“Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.”
“A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”
“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.”
“Prayer is like coffee for my soul in the morning”
“I'm not everyone's cup of tea, because I'm a kick butt cappuccino with extra milk fluff and chocolate sprinkles!”
“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youre falling to the floor crying ...”
“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”
“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didnt understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can...”
“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”