Everything We Keep Quotes

“I think your work likes you. You find beauty where others don’t see it. Or rather, they choose to ignore.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“He bailed on football practice.” As soon as the words left me, my stomach pitched. This wasn’t any of Phil’s business. He chuckled. “So, the Golden Boy isn’t so golden after all.” He lifted his arm toward my house. “Walk you home?” “Um . . . OK,” I heard myself agree.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“Sinking onto the sand, I turned my face into the wind, hoping the breeze would blow away the pain. The pain of rejection, the pain of betrayal, and the pain of everything that had been lost to us.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“It had been a perfect fit, but perfection can be an illusion.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“I’d been rushing to a finish line, and I’d failed to enjoy the run along the way.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“The human spirit is amazingly resilient, and the human body is surprisingly horny.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“Good thing a look couldn’t scald flesh. I’d have blisters.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“You might not feel anything for me, but I feel everything for you.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“The worst feeling in the world is never to be remembered by the one person I can’t forget.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“wondered if he was noticing from the photo how the thickly applied makeup hid the cuts on my cheek and the bruise on my chin.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“imagine? The not knowing?” I moaned. My lower lip quivered uncontrollably. “Hey! A little respect here,” Dad whispered harshly to the ladies behind us. He stood, shuffling past Mom and me, bumping our knees, and then sat, bookending me between himself and Mom. He pulled me into his side, becoming my shelter against the whispered gossip and curious stares. The organ blared as the funeral ceremony commenced. Everyone surged to their feet. I rose slowly, my entire body feeling achy and aged, and gripped the pew in front of me to keep from collapsing back into my seat. All heads turned to the rear of the church, where the pallbearers”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“Giants with the bases loaded. The Mets were up by three. The pitcher launched the ball toward home plate. It sliced through the air at ninety-two miles an hour and connected dead-on with Barry Bonds’s bat. Crack! The ball soared over the field and dropped into a fan’s leather glove, two rows behind the wall in the bleacher section. Home run! James and Thomas leaped from their seats. They whooped and hollered, smacking each other’s palms in high tens. “Game over!” Thomas clapped his hands. “Time to pay up.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“My brows arched upward. “That’s an interesting selection. You’re feisty tonight, aren’t you?” He rolled his shoulders and grinned, slow and sexy. My stomach quickened.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“PART”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“I don’t know how.” “You’ll find a way,” she said. “I don’t know what to do.” “You’ll figure something out.” “I’m all alone.” She”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“I was falling in love with my best friend, and I desperately missed him.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“True artists elicit an emotional response through their work. You, Aims, are an artist.” I”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“grabbed the door handle. “There’s no point in going to the”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“The worst feeling in the world is never to be remembered by the one person I can’t forget. The one man I haven’t been able to let go.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“I wondered if he was noticing from the photo how the thickly applied makeup hid the cuts on my cheek and the bruise on my chin.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“He bounded down the porch steps and to the taxi, waving before he sank into the backseat.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“True artists elicit an emotional response through their work. You, Aims, are an artist.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“My heart reached out to him. I knew exactly how he felt. Hollow and incomplete. Loss left an empty cavity in the chest.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“James had told me four days only, a quick business trip. Fly to Mexico, take a client fishing, negotiate contracts over dinner, and come home. The boat captain had said James cast his line, and after the captain checked the motor, James was gone. Just like that. Gone.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“make my insides flip. But instead of walking down the aisle toward my best friend, my first and only love, I was at his funeral. I sat beside my parents in the sanctuary filled with friends and relatives. They should have been our wedding guests. Instead, they’d come to pay their respects to a man who’d died too young and too soon. He’d just turned twenty-nine.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

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― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“You’re living the life you’d hoped to achieve. I won’t take this from you. I won’t force you to be someone you aren’t. I’d never force you the way your parents had.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“It’s OK to let go, Aimee. My eyes widened. It never had been James speaking to me in the wind, touching me with a tear. It was me—the part that was brave enough to move forward. The part that knew I was capable to make it on my own.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“Because of her, I learned not to let go too easily of the people I want in my life. Friends, people I care about a lot.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep

“Feeling guilty is natural. Just don’t hang on to it as long as I did. You’ll only get depressed and there isn’t a damn thing you can do to change the past.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep