“I think the more we fill our lives with more and more things we have to do, the less and less time we are spending on who we have to be.”
― Keeping It Straight: You, Me & Everything Else
― Keeping It Straight: You, Me & Everything Else
“I just tell people what they already know, but are afraid to admit to themselves.”
― Safe Haven
― Safe Haven
“It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.”
― Saving Francesca
― Saving Francesca
“It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.”
― What Happened to Goodbye
― What Happened to Goodbye
“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.”
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