Falling Away Quotes

“...the way she lived and died waiting for every text message, the way she overthought every abbreviation and smiley face, and hunted for every nuance in a medium so brief there was nowhere for nuance to hide.”
― Lisa Henry, Falling Away

“You want to stay over?"
"No. I want you to want me to stay over.”
― Lisa Henry, Falling Away

“Miss u, he typed out, but didn't send it.
Want u, he typed out, but didn't send it.
OK, he sent back, and wondered stupidly if Ben would try and discern any hidden meaning in those two tiny letters.”
― Lisa Henry, Falling Away

“He'd thought there was no part of him that Ben hadn't laid bare, but there was his hope. There was his heart.”
― Lisa Henry, Falling Away

“He'd never known it could be like that. Never before found that place where sex was something more, something larger than the act. Where it became about trust, and openness, and belonging.”
― Lisa Henry, Falling Away

“It'll blow your mind, he'd said. Nothing about what it would do to his heart.”
― Lisa Henry, Falling Away

“That's all he was doing. Mistaking that intensity for something that didn't translate outside of the bedroom. That couldn't, probably, because something that intense would burn itself out in a flash if you opened it up to the world, wouldn't it?”
― Lisa Henry, Falling Away