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They’d be grown-up women by then, too old to whisper secrets or climb up to the roof in the middle of the night.
Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.
How wonderful to say whatever you wanted without having to go over it in your mind, again and again, to make certain it wouldn’t set him off.
She’ll give herself credit for fighting the best battle she could against what she simply couldn’t defeat on her own.
In Sally’s opinion, Gillian really is fragile, that’s the awful part. Or at least she thinks she is, and that’s pretty much the same damn thing.
At Harvard, Scott had been shocked to find out that there were hundreds, if not thousands, of people as smart as he was. He’d been getting away with murder for years, using a tenth of his brain power, and now he actually had to work.
What if Jimmy had been right and she’d asked to be hit—maybe not out loud, but in some nameless way she wasn’t aware of. What if he’d fixed it so she actually needed it now?
They may never talk about tonight, and yet, all the same, it will change everything. Years from now, they’ll think of each other on dark nights; they’ll telephone one another for no particular reason, and they won’t want to hang up, even when there’s nothing left to say.
He’d like to make love to her right here, he’d like to do it all night and not give a damn about anything else, and not listen if she told him no.
Although she’d never believe it, those lines in Gillian’s face are the most beautiful part about her.
It’s the color of regret, it’s the color of heartbreak, the gray of doves and early morning.
She knows now that when you don’t lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that’s one recipe that can’t be tampered with.
Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
