“You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there.” — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“You need to take risks to end up feeling safe with someone, which seems to be totally illogical, when you start to break it… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“You think you know everything that's happening around you. But you can't always see clearly when your staning right there in the picture.” — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“Maybe illusions should be left alone. Because without them, everything looked broken and ugly.” — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“After that, Simon swam naked every night. By the third skinnydipping session, I secretly peeled off my bikini top while I was in the… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“I’m a realist,” I replied stubbornly, “not a romantic. Romantics are always disappointed.” “Maybe they’re disappointed because they’re always surrounded by realists.” Simon countered.” — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“Look. Aren’t they romantic?” Simon said, pointing out two "re!ies dancing together, their glowing lights making spirals in the dark. “Not necessarily,” I replied.… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“You take your flashlight out on your walks, right?” Simon asked. “Depends on the moonlight.” “From now on, take it with you every night.… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“...You have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you, because the present may be all you've got.” — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“#anks for the swim. You are a majestic swimmer,” Simon said as we neared the walkway to Wind Song. “You talk a lot of… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.” — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“But it was not the note that counted so much as the writing of it. Just because it wouldn’t last forever out there didn’t… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“Putting yourself at risk...that was the only path to anything meaningful. The biggest risk was in not taking a risk.” — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“She was so thin I could probably deck her on the side of the head with a pack of Marlboro Lights and she'd hemmorrhage… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“I’ll see ya,” I said in a neutral tone. I wasn’t sure whether to be annoyed by Simon or by myself, or by both… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
