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“It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“I want to be like water too. I want to be resilient, to go where I'm meant to go.”
― K.A. Tucker, Burying Water

“I've been in love with you since you helped me bury that spider in my garden, and you sang with me like we were singing “Amazing Grace” instead of “The Itsy, Bitsy Spider.” I've loved you since you quoted Hamlet like you understood him, since you said you loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn't be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation. I read and re-read your letters to Rita because I felt like you'd opened up a little window into your soul, and the light was pouring out with every word. They weren't even for me, but it didn't matter. I loved every word, every thought, and I loved you . . . so much.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“There's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Because terrible things happen to everyone, Brosey. We're all just so caught up in our own crap that we don't see the shit everyone else is wading through”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Maybe we just don't recognize the blessings that come as a result of terrible things”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Do you think there’s any way someone like Ambrose could fall in love with someone like me?”...
“Only if he’s lucky.”
“Oh, Bailey.” Fern shook her head, but loved him for saying it…and even more for meaning it.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“The real thing, when done right, is always better than a daydream.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“This last year I've felt like one of those snowflakes we used to make in school. The ones where you fold the paper a certain way and then keep cutting and cutting until the paper is shredded. That's what I look like, a paper snowflake. And each hole has a name. And nobody, not you, not me, can fill the holes that someone else has left. All we can do is keep each other from falling in the holes and never coming out again.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Sometimes beauty, or lack thereof, gets in the way of really knowing someone”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Scripture comforts me, and romance novels give me hope." "Oh yeah? Hope for what?" "Hope that I'll be doing more than quoting scripture with Ambrose Young in the very near future".”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can't see. We believe that there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies can't contain it.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“I've often thought that beauty can be a
deterrent to love,” Fern's father mused.
“Why?”
“Because sometimes we fall in love with a
face and not what's behind it.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“I used to be afraid of going to hell. But now that I'm here, hell doesn't seem so bad.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“I keep thinking that maybe you and I could take a road trip and tell all the girls we meet along the way that we’re both vets. You’ve got a messed up face and my war wounds have put me in this chair. You think they’d believe it? Maybe then I could get some action. Problem is, how am I going to get a handful of tit if I can’t lift my arms?”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love. You couldn't take my pain away without removing Bailey from my heart. I would rather have this pain now than never have known him. I just have to keep reminding myself of that.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Main characters never die in books. If they did, the story would be ruined, or over.”
“Everybody is a main character to someone. There are no minor characters.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straigt teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or the dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning." Fern didn't look away from the sky as she talked, and Ambrose let his eyes linger on her profile. She wasn't talking about him. She was just being thoughtful, pondering life's ironies. She was just being Fern.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“You can’t have an animal in here, Sheen.”
“I’m in a wheelchair, man. You gonna tell me I can’t have my seeing-eye cat with me? Actually, it can be your seeing-eye cat, since you’re blind and all. One of the perks to being a pathetic figure is that I tend to get what I want.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“It's so much easier to take if God had nothing to do with it. If God has nothing to do with it, then I can accept that it's just life. Nobody is special,but nobody isn't special, either. You know what I mean? I can come to terms with that. But I can't accept that your prayers are answered and theirs aren't. That makes me angry and hopeless–desperate even! And I can't live that way.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“How did you know I needed you?

Because I needed you.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“I think that's the worst part. The thought that no one will remember me when I'm gone. Sure, my parents will. Fern will. But how does someone like me live on? When it's all said and done, did I matter?" - Bailey”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“There are times like that, Bailey. Times you
don't think you can take it anymore. But then you discover that you
can. You always do. You're tough. You'll take a deep breath,
swallow just a little bit more, endure just a little longer, and
eventually you'll get your second wind,”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Live. Have courage. Be a good friend. Always be grateful.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“If Bailey had been born without MD, he wouldn't be Bailey. The Bailey who is smart and sensitive, and seems to understand so many things we don't. You might have looked right past Bailey if he'd grown up healthy, wrestling on his dad's team, acting like every other guy you've ever known. A big part of the reason Bailey is so special is because life has sculpted him into something amazing . . . maybe not on the outside, but on the inside. On the inside, Bailey looks like Michelangelo's David. And when I look at him, and when you look at him, that's what we see.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Love songs or poetry?
Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music.
And you can't dance to poetry.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces