Lisa

“The back of her neck smelled like a parakeet’s tummy, sweet hay and fluff.”
― John L. Parker Jr., Once a Runner

“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.”
― Alan Cohen

“These fundamental imbalances led them into concentric circles of ever decreasing size: a nautilus shell of their discontent.”
― John L. Parker Jr., Once a Runner

“What is really contagious is fear, the constant fear of never finding someone to accompany us to the end of our days. And in the name of this fear we are capable of doing anything, including accepting the wrong person and convincing ourselves that he or she’s the one, the only one, who God has placed in our path. In very little time the search for security turns into a heartfelt love, and things become less bitter and difficult. Our feelings can be put in a box and pushed to the back of the closet in our head, where it will remain forever, hidden and invisible.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery