“Simon nodded. “You need your beauty sleep.” “Do I?” I said coolly. “I didn’t mean,” Simon stuttered. “I meant…you’re a girl and all.” “Thanks for telling me,” — 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
“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
“Maybe illusions should be left alone. Because without them, everything looked broken and ugly.” — Amanda Howells Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“...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
“#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
“In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.” — Amanda Howells Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
