Saving Graces Quotes

“Sunday was long. Rosalie did all her usual Sunday things. She cooked a great breakfast . She went for a walk. She read a book, curled up on the couch with Lemonade purring on her lap. She did yoga in the afternoon sunbeam that streamed through her living room window. She did laundry and got ready for another week.

And yet at every stage of her day, she thought about what could have been. Waking up in Kinsey’s bed, sore and sated, yet hungry for more. The breakfast eaten in a borrowed shirt, their bare legs brushing beneath the table. Kisses that tasted of maple syrup, up against the kitchen counter until the inevitable return to bed, Kinsey’s fingers, Kinsey’s mouth, Kinsey naked.

It made her scrambled eggs taste like ashes and her walk aimless. She kept reading the same page over and over and her yoga session turned into one long savasana, lying on her back, staring blankly up at the ceiling and wondering exactly where she’d gone wrong in her life, or at least the last twenty-four hours because god dammit she loved her quiet life. She loved it. One momentary slip-up with an inappropriately young woman should not be making her unravel.”
― Ruby Landers, Saving Graces

“She was one hundred percent being sussed out right now under a smokescreen of Southern charm and big sister energy. This wasn’t a casual walk they were on, this was a minefield.  ”
― Ruby Landers, Saving Graces