“She had always thought that exquisitely happy time at the beginning of her relationship with Nick was the ultimate, the feeling they'd always be trying to replicate, to get back, but now she realized that was wrong. That was like comparing sparkling mineral water to French champagne.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Perhaps nothing was ever ‘meant to be.’ There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit bendy.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best--Well,…”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Falling in love was easy. Anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“I promised to never cry a single tear for you again. I promised to never write about your eyes again. In the past is where your smile belongs. Yet, today I asked myself: Can promised be broken?”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“Parts of me wanted to ask you to stay. To keep fighting for me. To fight for us. But a certain ideology impeded me from doing so. The idea that when someone loves you enough, they will stay on their own, without you asking them to.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“Will you miss me when I'm gone? Lie if you must. But please say you will.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“Tell me you love me with your eyes, for they hold the truth of your inner soul.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“I want to study every corner of your body, all of which that makes you whole. I want to find every key, for every secret you keep behind closed doors.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“The weather changed after you left. It's no longer warm, and the wind now has traces of cold in it.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“On occasions my heart you have destroyed, I cannot let you do the same once more.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“You want to play me, I can see your moves. Little do you know, I'm not a toy. This is not a game.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“It is obvious that you and I will never be, anything close to what we were, and everything we could have been.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“There is a thin line between love and hate. And I swift from hating you, to loving you, to hating you all over again.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“You felt lost, and when I found you, who was I to think my love could keep you.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“I gave you the sun but you wanted the moon. When I gave you the moon, you wanted the stars.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com