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For a minute, I allow myself to feel a pang of want, which I usually don’t do, because it hurts. I love my mother and our life, but sometimes…I’d like to have a beautiful window on the sea. I’d like to walk right outside my door and be able to feel the sand in my toes, instead of always having to wear shoes on the sharp rocks that make up our portion of the beach.
He and his dad built wings so they could escape, but the wings were made of feathers and wax, and his dad told him not to fly too close to the sun, because it would melt and burn his wings, but Icarus didn’t listen, because he was headstrong and prideful, and that’s exactly what happened, and he drowned. You had your chance, Alice, but it came crashing down.”
Sometimes I forget that people can be kind. That you don’t have to ask them. They just are.
When you’re little, people tell you how great your life will be one day. Tell you that you can be anything or anyone you want as long as you work hard and are kind and never give up. But I do all of those things, and I’m still a girl alone in a crappy seaside apartment with wonky wiring.
“I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”
“Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out.”
My mom informed me years ago that crying was an unattractive quality in a person, and after that I stopped doing it.
“I think people more often kill those they love, than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.”
Just like no one thought Agatha Christie could write an unsolvable mystery. People underestimate women all the time. And I’m sick of it.”
I’m an under-the-radar person. I like the rock I live under. It’s quiet and safe here, and when it gets ripped away from me, like with the Thing, all hell breaks loose and it takes me a long time to stitch myself back together.
It seems like a perfect love story—exiled from her wealthy family, a single mom moves back to her family’s hometown, meets the love of her life who not only wants to marry her but adopt her child as his own.”
“Take no risks and be alert to danger.
“Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains—if you’ve got any. And, if necessary—act.”
They say money makes you happy. It doesn’t. It just makes you more comfortable in your grief.”
“Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.”
“Love can be a very frightening thing.” “That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”
