Robin

“Her mother’s private feelings, she would realize later (with no small amount of shame), were of no real concern to her. She only cared about what her mother gave to her and what she withheld.”
― Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

“There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and forever long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we’re lucky, twice in a lifetime. And when they do, they affect our gravity.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“These past years have caused my heart to become untethered. There are no more scraped knees to kiss, soft curls to smooth back, hungry minds to feed with an opened book, a discovery in the forest, a speck of water on a piece of glass under the microscope. And there is no warm flesh to reach for in the middle of the night when the light of the full moon breaking in through the window causes one’s eyelids to flutter open.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“possible. Thank you for allowing my stories into your lives. “I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise”
― Anna Lee Huber, This Side of Murder