Reckless Hearts Quotes

“So Slim tied a scarf around her head and went on a long walk on the beach, fighting the sand for each step but rejoicing in the pleasant ache in her calf muscles, for it meant she was still alive, still moving, not fading into the background.”
― Melanie Benjamin, Reckless Hearts

“But when she saw Ernest Hemingway striding out the front door of his home in Key West, she was struck dumb. He wasn’t simply lit from within; he’d harnessed the sun itself, hauled it down from the sky with those enormous hands, swallowed it so that it sat squarely in that barrel chest, molten rays radiating out of every pore.”
― Melanie Benjamin, Reckless Hearts