I'll Be Your Blue Sky Quotes

“I am one of those people who believes that at least half of love is simply paying attention.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“Back when we were in love, even after we’d been together for years, that smile never stopped taking me by surprise. It was found money, an arrowhead, a shooting star, a great, shiny stroke of luck every single time.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“... I laughed simply because being this particular person in this particular world at this particular moment was cause for joy...”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“Honestly, the idea of wanting to spend time with people one did not love absolutely mystified her.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“The Antioch Beach library was like something out of a good dream, if you're the kind of person who dreams about libraries, which I am ...”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“Number six: Zach never tailgates, ever, no matter how slowly the car in front of him is going.
Because the driver in front of you could be anyone--an organ donor, a war hero, a man who's just lost his best friend, a kid with a new license doing her best, said Cornelia. Not tailgating acknowledges the mystery and humanity of strangers. It's one of those small habits that speaks volumes.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“Cornelia pulled love around me like a coat, tugged it shut, and did up the buttons, as if I belonged to her. And so I did.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“Oh, this here and now, this particular snapshot fragment of forever.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“Cornelia—who was in town dropping off her children at her parents’ house for a week of, as she put it, “unfettered joy, limitless pie, and irreversible spoiling”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“returned wedding gifts and penned endless notes of apology to the givers and to all our would-be-turned-would-not-be wedding guests, and if I say that I felt every word of those notes carve themselves into my skin like in that scary Dolores Umbridge detention scene in the fifth Harry Potter, I’m exaggerating, but only a little.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“For those few stolen minutes, she found she could let go, second by second, of everything that haunted her until her mind was empty as a scoured bowl and all she knew was flavor on her tongue, air against her face, the small, dazzling details of her scrap of world.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“I laughed simply because being this particular person in this particular world at this particular moment was cause for joy”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“No one should live with someone who scares her.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“Going to bed mad is wretched, like trying to sleep with sand in your sheets or with a possible gas leak in your boiler.” I”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“I know the pull of a dark, complicated man, the kind who has trouble loving anyone but you. But let me tell you this: the ones who look like home are home.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“You're his blue sky. When everything else is darkness. But is he yours?”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“It was what Joseph had missed most during the war, all the small, scattered pieces of the precious and luminous ordinary, evidence that life insists on continuing.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“Talking turned out to be Louise’s talent. If talking were a sport, Louise would’ve been a marathoner.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“And then, one day, Edith gave me a house.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“Not tailgating acknowledges the mystery and humanity of strangers. It's one of those small habits that speaks volumes.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“You must promise to give yourself entirely to someone or something because that's who you are. You are a genius at devoting yourself; it's what makes you happiest.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky