“Wren, come back, please come back. Don't disappear again. I want you here. Stay here.” — Amy McNamara Stay Copy Share Image
“You´re not complication. You´re the only air I can stand to breathe.” — Amy McNamara Breathe Copy Share Image
“I don't trust anything I think I know now. I guess that's the price of sailing so far away.” — Amy McNamara Trust Copy Share Image
“I feel like I'm being hazed. Life's hazing me. Seeing what I can take.” — Amy McNamara Hazing Copy Share Image
“The real gift is time. Now. Each other, this night, and the wide, wide moon-silvered sea.” — Amy McNamara Time Copy Share Image
“I hate the world. All the fragile people in it. Every one of us.” — Amy McNamara Hate the world Copy Share Image
“Larkin gets it, got it, the lies we live just to tread through time.” — Amy McNamara Grief Copy Share Image
“I'm lost again, inside myself. Somewhere that's not nowhere. Disoriented. I've let everything go.” — Amy McNamara Disoriented Copy Share Image
“I just had a conversation with a guy who likes me. A guy I like. I'm going shopping with Mary. Look at… — Amy McNamara Communication Copy Share Image
“I'm starting to feel a little like I might fly away. Like everyone else has solid lives, and I'm just a particle,… — Amy McNamara Feel Copy Share Image
“There are points in time when you grow older than your parents. Or come up on them at least. I look at… — Amy McNamara Father Copy Share Image
“I find a way to close up again, get back to feeling like I'm not going to break apart at any second.… — Amy McNamara Copy Share Image
“And that's just it. This is how it is. Always. To pay attention to things. People. It's too easy to fail other… — Amy McNamara Blink Copy Share Image
“How did I not see it? Pain is everywhere. I'm just another sorry story. All these people wearing smiles, dragging themselves around--do… — Amy McNamara Depression Copy Share Image
“Too many people are expecting me to do things. I don't want to meet anyone's expectations. Be expected. I just want to-be.… — Amy McNamara Too many people Copy Share Image
“So this is life. Love. We spend all this time reaching for each other and mostly we end up hurting each other… — Amy McNamara Life Copy Share Image
“The thing about grief is that you have to let yourself feel it. Even the worst parts. Especially the worst parts. Pass… — Amy McNamara Grief Copy Share Image
“What I wanted wasn't hidden, it was just messy. Uncertain. In my heart it could have been anything less prescribed, something open,… — Amy McNamara Stories Heart Copy Share Image
“There's no air in here. There is something seriously wrong with me. I can't figure anything out. I'm too out of control.… — Amy McNamara Copy Share Image
“Up near the top, the view pierces me so totally I have one of those flash thoughts about tossing myself into the… — Amy McNamara Ocean Copy Share Image
“It's like last May I stepped on the wrong stone and slipped into this rotten otherworld. A place where the stakes are… — Amy McNamara Death Copy Share Image
“I came here because it's pine-dark and the ocean is wild. The kind of quiet-noise you need when there's too much going… — Amy McNamara Contemporary Copy Share Image
“i'm a little less afraid of the dark now that you've become part of it.” — Amy McNamara Dark Copy Share Image
“I wish I believed him. He's looking at me like he can see where I begin.” — Amy McNamara Beautiful Copy Share Image
“It's too much to be trusted with someone else's heart. I don't think it ever ends well.” — Amy McNamara Broken ; heart Copy Share Image
“It's dark out. The sky is crazy, more stars than dark. So many more than I can ever remember seeing.” — Amy McNamara Astronomy Copy Share Image
“If you slip far enough out of your life, time picks up. Passes in waves instead of notches. One month rolling by,… — Amy McNamara Life Copy Share Image
“Something falls inside me. Sinks down deep. I look at my lap. A terrible leaden loneliness. Try to breathe under the weight… — Amy McNamara Loneliness Copy Share Image
