The Long Way Home
Jessa Hastings
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He laughs and for some reason it sounds like I'm ringing the doorbell of the home I grew up in.”
“She could walk all over me, strangle me to death, and I wouldn’t notice. If the emerald eyes are out then I’m dying anyway.”
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it’s not proud. It doesn’t dishonour others, it’s not self-seeking, it’s not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But it’s shit. It’s all a lie.”
“I wonder if we’ll ever not be like magnets… not be these two things that drift home to each other no matter what. If there is a way to break the spell, I don’t want to know a fucking thing about it.”
“Eternally sunny, then.” “Oh—” He grimaces. “Can’t promise that. Storms always come, they have to — brings balance.”
“But I love you more than I’m angry at you, so I need to figure it out.”
“She pulls away from me and as she does, I slip my heart in her back pocket. That’s a lie. She already had it. But I give it to her again for good measure.”
“But he can't promise he won't hurt me so I don't know how to promise I'll stay.”
“She's on the back foot here. All girls are on the back foot when it comes to me and Parks.”
“It occurs to me somewhere in the background of my thinking - like the way the snow falls, quiet without you knowing, and then you look behind you and your entire backyard, everything you thought you knew, is blanketed all white.”
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