Letters In Cardboard Boxes Quotes

“Fact is just fiction with different storytellers”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Parker, I'm old," She said matter-of-factly. "I get away with these things." She continued to wave and smile wildly. "People treat me like an idiot so I'm allowed to act like one from time to time. It's one of the perks.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Sometimes you don’t get to close one door before another opens. We’re not all given that luxury, for closure.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Leaves danced sadly with the wind, waving goodbye.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“There are no words for the sight of a smiling face.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Never too late for the right kind of change.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“She looked up at me with a look that told me everything, gave me a glimpse of everything I would be missing in one instant.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Sometimes walls go up between friends and you can’t see the other side. And sometimes they come down. That’s just the way walls are, and they’re everywhere.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Sometimes, we have to change the way we see things in order to see the way they truly are. We have to look at all the angles and cracks and crevices until we know what it is we’re looking at. And we can’t stop until we see it all!”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Old friends have a way of reminding you of what you used to be. In an instant, I remembered everything I once was and I realized how much I’d changed.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“She suddenly realized how much she loved the rain; loved the way it seemed like the sky was purging something it held onto; the feeling of relief that settled over the earth the moment it passed. As if the universe, and all its tiny pieces, took one collective sigh and moved on to the next thing.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Go have a birthday. Before you blink and its all over.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“She looked up and saw the right angles of time above her as the clock hit three.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Love was something that sat comfortably in her dreams, so she never fully expected it to materialize.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“I can’t even think about words because the sunset stole them all.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“For the life of me, I don’t understand these bumper stickers. I would think, the more you believe in something, the less you’d want to stick it on your car. Just ridiculous the way people flaunt beliefs like they’re pocketbooks.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“The search for lost things is hindered by routine habits, and that is why it is so difficult to find them.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“She inhaled deep breaths filled with salty air and watched the moon cast streaks across the rippling river, unable to determine in which direction it flowed or where it went, but suddenly curious about it for the first time.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Her eyes watered until the moment became nothing more than floating colors in front of her watery eyes.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“It’s a leap of faith to think that being anonymous will change anything.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“She smiled, not because she felt confident that she could think of a solution, but for the gratitude that she wasn’t quite so alone in her pursuit.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“This was what Parker had learned early on about disappointment; its sting lasts only in the beginning, only until the body goes numb from its repetition.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“At some point, time isn’t something on the horizon anymore, something you think about happening one day, but something that’s already happened, only there to replay in your mind.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“His eyes felt like bathwater; fluid, therapeutic almost.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“In a brief, surreal moment, she could see the young man he used to be in his smile.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Even with the windows up she could smell the thick, spiky aroma of cut grass and the distant hum of a lawnmower somewhere down the street. It was a sad hum, though, like the buzzing of a bee that had lost the desire to make honey.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Sparks fly everywhere, Parker. The world’s practically on fire. You need something more solid in your relationships than some silly little spark.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Her grandmother experienced them differently, as if they brought her remnants from another time, another life even, which she refused to acknowledge in any other context.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Bodies bounced around like drunken particles.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes