“sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. it’s everything in between we live for.”- the sense of an ending, ann patchett
“there was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.” - bel canto, ann patchett
(via simplici-tea)
“it makes you wonder. all the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.” - bel canto, ann patchett
“lucy’s loneliness was breathtaking in its enormity … lucy thought that all she needed was one person, the right person, and all the empty space would be taken away from her. but there was no one in the world who was big enough for that … she couldn’t see that so much of love was the work of it.” - truth & beauty, ann patchett
