Quotes from work

Plain Truth

“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”

“We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.”

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”

“You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.”

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

“Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.”