Hello Beautiful

by Ann Napolitano

Opportunity did not knock until I built the door.

The city is talking to us, Carrie would have said if she were there.

“Everything is so rich inside me now…that it holds my attention. You know the quote about how the only reason for time is so everything doesn’t happen at once? I feel like everything that’s ever happened in my life is happening inside me.

“It’s hard to explain, but our love was so deep and wide that it made me love everyone and everything in sight. Which included me.” She smiled wider. “I know it sounds silly, but I’m proud of myself. I guess for living a brave life.”

A shadow represents either the blocking out of light or the other half of a person. When a character loses their shadow, they’ve lost a part of themselves and have to search to get it back.

When your love for a person is so profound that it’s part of who you are, then the absence of the person becomes part of your DNA, your bones, and your skin.

She was more abundant than she’d believed possible.

when she’d thrown open the door in greeting, she knew something was happening to her own roots. Something was happening beneath the ground she was standing on.

The four sisters looked like different versions of the same person: They were parts of a whole.

It felt like finding an answer to a question he hadn’t known he had.

William could see how much time he’d missed, the gap between then and now. Was life constructed of arrivals and departures?

“I know I don’t know you, but I feel like I do. It’s weird, though…because I also feel like I don’t really know who I am.”

I think sometimes”—now it was his turn to pause—“we need another pair of eyes. We need the people around us.”