I’m only the “pretty” fat girl. The “you have such a lovely face, but you would be so much prettier if only you were a little thinner” girl.
“she was asking how to live after a loss like this, how to pick up one child and let the other go, how to keep breathing after you whisper “good-bye.” “I can’t leave her.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“She hates the dark.” “My maman will be with her,”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“You want to kill someone, Halloween’s not a bad night.”
― Look Closer
― Look Closer
“You know what, Quinn?” Parker says, closing the space he just put between us. “I bet you, right here, right now, that if you give me these seven days you’re home, I can make you fall in love with Christmas all over again.”
― The Mistletoe Bet
― The Mistletoe Bet
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