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“Nobody can talk when they first arrive,” the boy said. “It makes you listen better. That’s what they told me, anyhow.” Who?
“Younger and dumber,” the boy said. What are you doing?
The groom, who changed the tire in his tuxedo, said the whole thing was his wife’s idea. Nice guy. Funny guy. The incident had made Tolbert feel good about people. He didn’t always feel that way.
Why am I seeing this? “Because you went through the same thing.” How do you know? “Know what?” What happened to me? “That’s easy.” He took her single hand. “I was there.”
“Remember this, Annie. When we build, we build on the shoulders of those who came before us. And when we fall apart, those who came before us help put us back together.”
“This isn’t your heaven, it’s mine.”
“No act done for someone else is ever wasted.”
When he reaches the car, Paulo leans towards the window and offers his hand. “Hi, Annie’s mom, I’m Paulo.” Lorraine hesitates. “Hello, Paulo.” “Now that we’re in this new school, I can walk home with Annie so you don’t have to drive her every day. I don’t live too far from you.” Annie’s heart races. Paulo wants to walk home together? “Thank you, Paulo,” Lorraine says. “But we’re fine. Come on, Annie, we’ve got errands to run.” Annie doesn’t want to go. She doesn’t want to open the door. Paulo does it for her. She slowly ducks inside and reluctantly lets him close it. “If you change your
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So cute😊😊 braved and determined…. Love it
Annie feels her skin get hot. She had wanted nothing more than what Paulo just proposed, and her mother shot it down without a thought. “Why did you have to be so mean to him?” Annie snaps. “What are you talking about? I wasn’t mean.” “Yes, you were!” “Annie—” “You were!” “He’s just a boy—” “God, Mom! Why do you have to be here all the time? I’m so sick of you! You treat me like an infant! You’re the reason I have no friends!” Her mother squeezes her lips, as if biting back something she wants to yell. She shifts her hands on the steering wheel. “Do your exercises,” she says.
This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.
First loves often remain in the heart, like plants that cannot grow in sunlight.
“You need your strength.”
“Love is strength,”
How big? Who’ll show up? In the end it’s meaningless. You realize, once you die, that a funeral is for everyone else, not you.”
“That,” she said, “was foolish. Love is not revenge. It can’t be thrown like a rock. And you can’t create it to fix your problems. Forcing love is like picking a flower then insisting that it grow.”
“That’s how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.”
The wrongs we do open doors to do right.” * * *
You only have peace when you make it with yourself. I had to learn that the hard way.”
“There’s no such thing as a nobody. And there are no mistakes.” *
What if there were no mistakes or wrongs. I often wonder if right and wrong are the same and must be treated the same.
Should we view things in oneness?
Everything are met to happened at the given time. Be open to to what is happening or has happened.
“FIJS03”
Love comes when you least expect it. Love
comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.
“See you in a little bit,” Paulo whispered. When her eyes opened, Annie was staring into a fluorescent ceiling light. She heard a soft mechanical humming and a woman’s voice say, “Doctor, look!”
briefly,
comatose
I didn’t see that one coming… Mitch You are an amazing writer.
