Quotes from book

Keeping Faith

“The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.”

“I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.”

“Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.”

“What's worse…?
The devil you don't know… or the devil you do?”

“maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.”

“This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder”

“I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.”

“Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.”

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”

“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”

“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”

“You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.”