“She sometimes talked aloud
when she thought I couldn't hear
about how she felt
and what she thought
and I would listen
and fall in love
again and again
from the inside out.”
More from Atticus
“The sun is hot without a cloud in the sky and the beach runs out for a mile in silky white…”
“I will follow you, my love, to the edge of all our days, to our very last tomorrows.”
“The world is made up of too many girls wondering if they are pretty and too many boys too…”
“The hardest step we all must take is to blindly trust in who we are.”