The Story of Arthur Truluv (Mason, #1)

by Elizabeth Berg

Arthur feels an impulse to tell her he’d love to have her company anytime. He feels like she’s the smallest little plant, dying from lack of water.

being with them is like…I don’t know. It’s like I was living in a jar. With the lid on tight. And now I’m out and I never knew about all this air and all this light. You know? It’s like I’d never seen in color before, and now I do.”

real families come from choices we make about who we want to be bound to, and the ties to such families live in our hearts.

“I’ll love you forever in darkness and sun, I’ll love you past when my whole sweet life is done,”