Elizabeth Chandler Quotes
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He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.
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Its just the anniversary, she wanted to tell him. Its just this time of the year stirring up these memories. Everything will be all right. But she couldn't say that, because she wasn't sure it was true.
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People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.
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Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.
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There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.
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Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.
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He had told her he would love her forever, but he could not stay with her. From that time on, she couldn't see his glow or hear his voice in her head. Could he still hear her? Was he even aware of her existence?
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I'm not supposed to date you, Jenny." "That's what you said before." He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "I didn't think this was going to be a problem. I mean, I'm pretty good at not letting someone become important to me. I have to be if I want to make it to L.A." "I understand." He laughed. "How nice of you to understand, since you're the one making it a struggle for me! It would be so easy to make you important.
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Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.
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So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?
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Quick, how do you pick up a cat?" "Buy her a drink.
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When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities.
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You've grown up, girl. You've grown up real nice, Welcome home
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Her hair gives dawn it's fire, her eyes give dusk her soul" He knew how to use his voice to melt a girl's heart, to make a girl want to believe. I steeled myself against the seductive words. "Excuse me?" "It's a line of poetry describing a beautiful girl, one who doesn't seem to know it.
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What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?
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It was Nick's voice Nick's arms. He turned me on my back and swam with me, pulling me to the bank.
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Every night she had fallen asleep dreaming about that kiss, and each kiss after.
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dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets
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Good dog! Nice fetch!" "He wasn't fetching." "Bring her here, boy. Good job!" The dog looked from Zack to me. "I've been training him," Zack said. "Up till now he's brought home only dead rabbits, but I guess he's finally getting the hang of it.
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Everyday, every hour, I have held you close in my heart.
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Old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.
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Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they’ve just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe that’s just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesn’t happen to me, I don’t want to think it happens to anyone else.
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You fell in love with me?
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I glanced up at him. "I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.