280 quotes found
“Taking your language into my soul, feeling it separate from sentences to words burning with flight, til all I have left are meaningless letters pushing fire through my veins. Words can draw blood i...”
“You used words, discarding them meaninglessly, without thinking, whereas I thought they held meaning. I found what you will never see: that my love resides on the other side of words. - Broken Places”
“Ive traveled this road for many decades and I still dont know how to go. I am a wanderer, traversing mountains of time. There is no fault, only fault lines that tremor and quake, barring me, no war...”
“He's an artist in London. We don't see him much."Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, "Doesn't he live with you?""No," said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had know...”
“...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breaths time, but for the long continuance, the hard candies of femur and stone, the fastnesses.”
“Grief is the emotional contract of divorce”
“Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).”
“Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is wha...”
“For once, the tears wouldn't come. She saw that Michael might have been right. It really could be too cold to snow.”
“...maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.”
“God Hates divorce.""He hates cruelty even more."Caring For Eleanor”
“Some people will only love you as much as they can use you. their loyalty ends where the benefits stop.”
“A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.”
“Now our father lived in a world where we didnt belong, with a needy girlfriend who didnt look much older than Henri, a saltwater pool in need of daily skimming, and a flashy Porsche that needed to ...”
“She fell silent, remembering the jolt of envy and longing shed felt when shed framed the Browns in her viewfinder. Now, weeks and miles later, it was another jolt for Bryan to realize she hadnt bru...”
“She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.”
“I wanted two girls," she said. "You and your sister. I wanted exactly what I had. Other people's children are too hard”
“The only way to get over the pain is to face it, embrace it, hug it and learn the lessons embedded within it.”
“I wanted the fairytale.”
“Anyway," continued Mr. Miller, "when I was a kid, people used to sit under the stars at night and look up into the sky and talk about things. They got to know each other. People Today is too busy s...”
