The Star and the Strange Moon Quotes

“He'd missed something early in his life. As a child, instead of love, he'd been focused on survival. Love had been a luxury. While he missed his mother dearly, she'd never taught him how to love. He didn't need scores of therapists to point that out. How could he possibly describe his formative years to Ivy? ....
He never wanted anyone's pity again, so he just shut them away. But in shutting them away, they had taken a part of himself with them. Somewhere, a portion of Christopher tended these bad memories, like a gardener. He knew she had terrible memories of her own mother, but she didn't let them define her. This was the line between him and Ivy. Perhaps that was why he knew that after seeing L'Etrange Lune, he was headed farther down the path, not away.
"You deserve better than me," he said, believing it now more than ever...
"I love you," she said. It came out more of a plea. "But I'm so tired of it being one-sided."
What came next, he needed to do. For her. She needed to go forward and embrace her new life fully and let him go. He inhaled. "This is hard for me to say, Ivy. But I don't love you. Not in the way you want, and not in the way that matters. Everything you just said is true." ...
And as he watched her walk away, he knew he'd lost something, something he never deserved to have.”
― Constance Sayers, The Star and the Strange Moon

“Love and film have this in common: they both stretch time, capturing a fleeting moment and holding it hostage for eternity.”
― Constance Sayers, The Star and the Strange Moon