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There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
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“My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”
― Vengeance
― Vengeance

“sometimes i don't know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
tousling my hair
and my heart,
stirring...that familiar ache of poetry,
which drop will kiss
the old wrench in my soul
reminding me, all over again
i miss you better in the rain.”
― A Thousand Flamingos
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
tousling my hair
and my heart,
stirring...that familiar ache of poetry,
which drop will kiss
the old wrench in my soul
reminding me, all over again
i miss you better in the rain.”
― A Thousand Flamingos
“Have you ever loved a place so much that it sunk into your bones?”
― The Last Garden in England
― The Last Garden in England

“Maine is a beautiful place that I paradoxically want to hoard to myself and share with everyone I meet.”
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

“You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again and now I write another letter that I will never dare to send, collecting memories of loss like chains tight around my chest,
and if you see a fire from the shore tonight
it’s my chains going up in flames.”
― You're Doing Just Fine
and if you see a fire from the shore tonight
it’s my chains going up in flames.”
― You're Doing Just Fine

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