Leslye Walton, The Strange And Beautiful Sorrows Of Ava Lavender Quotes
Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.
Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.
She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.
children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people
The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.
She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.
She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.
The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.
Because I'm your mother, that's why.
But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.
The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.