Bone Island: Book of Danvers (Tales of Weeping Hollow, #2)

by Nicole Fiorina

Be stone, not paper. It’s the only way you will survive in a world full of people who will only disappoint you.”

“A person only welcomes pain to either feel, distract, or suffocate something that hurts more.”

“The more you pretend it’s not there, the louder it screams,”

However, with hope came disappointment,

Strong did not mean cold. Courageous did not mean fearless. Emotions did not mean weak.

She was my only and all. She was the very last breath at the bottom of my lungs.

“We are humans who sometimes do bad and sometimes do good. Whether it is good or bad is not for you to decide.”

The other half of falling in love is to fall in love with yourself, too.”

That perhaps you won’t feel it today, or tomorrow, or even the day after that, but it will hit you when you least expect it.

All we love, and the simple pleasures we find comfort in, will never last forever.

Coffee has a last sip. A song has a final note. A great story has a last page. Nothing can stop it. The sun sets, people die, you read the final chapter, you say goodbye. You move on. But, if loud enough, if felt deeply enough, if this moment or person was so significant and changed your life, they became a part of you. You feel them floating on a melody, sewn into a breeze, laced in a scent, or brought to life by words on a page. No one needs magic to remember them or feel them. They’ve already imprinted themselves.