For All Time Quotes

“I miss her most when it’s quiet. The air conditioner kicks in and a low rumble
fills the media lab with background music that I hate, and there it is. Loneliness.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“They’ve got adventure in their eyes, and luck trailing behind them like a trained dog.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“I guess my sister reminds Daddy of where he’s going; I look too much like where he’s been.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“A wife isn’t a prisoner; she’s a refuge. A mother ain’t a slave; she’s a saint. Men make it possible for girls like you to keep they souls clean.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“I enjoy compliments just like anybody else, but you’re being a bit ridiculous.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“Have you considered that there is no one I’ve found to be worth my time?'
'I have. I just thought it would be hard to turn down proposals from every man you meet. A girl as beautiful as you? I’m surprised you make it home every day.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“Skin smooth as velvet and dark as twilight.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“I remember. And remember. And remember.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“Don’t tell me you didn’t feel what I felt when you kissed me. Like we fit together
somehow, like I’ve known you all my life. I felt it the moment I first saw you on the
platform.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“He can smell their money, and even I can’t miss the perfume of their position in the community. It’s the aroma you get after you’ve had generations removed from struggle, while Daddy’s still got the stench of Tennessee moonshine on him.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“It is! Just as sad as you, so beat-down you can’t tell when somebody sees you. You couldn’t wait a day for me to figure something out? You couldn’t leave me an address so I could write? Come and see you?' he finishes in a rush.
'I don’t want your help!' I cry, trying hard to keep my voice down. 'I didn’t have time. I could wait all day, all year, all my life and look up and find it’s passed me by from all the waiting.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“And you never thought about me?' The pain in his voice is tangible; it rises at the end, accusing me. I know the question is deeper than a thought. He saw what I saw. I’m not just a girl who got greedy and he’s not just a boy on a train.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“Sometimes I act without thinking, and sometimes I overthink so much that the decision gets made for me.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“A feeling, deeper than déjà vu, sends a shiver across my skin, and a twist in my gut erupts like a bomb.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“Family love is different from romantic love. You expect it and demand it in some ways. It’s supposed to be unconditional, and you don’t have to do anything to get it.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“You pluck a string in my chest that I can’t stop from vibrating. Every night I dream of you. Nonsensical dreams that say that I am meant to be with you.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“Who can know the difference between fate and folly?”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“You’ve met me before. You’ve grown to know me in your dreams, in all those other lives you’ve watched play out in your mind your whole life. I know you have because I’ve seen them too. We’re together. Always. You trusted me then. Do you trust me now?'
Her fists clench as she tries to deny what’s between us. 'I don’t know you,' she
wails, uncertainty in her eyes. Tamar does science and facts, a hard fist and bombs.
Not myths and fate.
'You know me in here,' I plead, pressing my palm to her heart. 'Trust me.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“You’ve met me before. You’ve grown to know me in your dreams, in all those
other lives you’ve watched play out in your mind your whole life. I know you have
because I’ve seen them too. We’re together. Always. You trusted me then. Do you
trust me now?”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“And then he kisses me, softly at first and then so deeply it shakes the memories
from my bones and sets every reservation and fear on fire.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“I’ve loved you more than my future, and at times I’ve loved you more than my own life.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“You love me?' I ask.
'For all time,' she says, and smiles.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“Even if time stops and the world starts over, I’ll still love her.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“It reminds me of you and reminds me that the right decision might also be the
hard one.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“In real life you have to actually do
something. You have to get off your butt and send Prince Charming a text if you
want a chance at happily ever after.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“It’s the kind of light that outlines moments so they can’t be lost to time.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“There’s no script for this. It’s never happened before, and hopefully, it won’t ever
again.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“I don’t want you soaking up any of that crap about so-called dangerous Black boys from those Crayola men, you hear me? And if you want to keep protesting, you do that. World changes ’cause kids like you and Fay change it.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“My music is not staid or proper, pretty or respectable. It is not for the mother looking for a biddable bride for her son at church or for the son looking for a pretty housekeeper to call his wife. It is adventurous and weighty, loud and boisterous, fuming when it wants to be and despondent when it needs to be. It is unapologetically emotional in a way I am never allowed to be without consequence. My music is a girl who behaves like a boy: flat shoes and comfortable slacks, loud-mouthed and ready to take on the world. My music is black in a place where black isn’t an insult: it’s shining, proud, and unworried. I let myself transform into wood and sound and vibration.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time