“I think there are certain people who change the way time moves.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“I stand here on this spring day in the center of my life. Chaos, din, and beauty. For a moment, I am… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“People in love feel that way all the time, like they don't know what they've done to deserve each other.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“When it comes to Clare, sometimes, the past isn't past. The past can get as present as any present ever was, so… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“But every time, what brought me to my senses was my conviction that before a person dropped a new life into this… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“...if you stay in it for any length of time, like anyplace else, a cafe becomes a world.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“Honestly, William, time ?' his mother had snapped. ' Distance ? Those things have nothing whatsoever to do with love. Who knows… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“You know what I mean. That moment in a relationship in which, at the same time you discover you've been floating in… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“It was the first time! Just because there weren’t fireworks the first time doesn’t mean there will never be fireworks. We’re human;… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“I spoke, I listened, and my heart broke, which is to say that it didn't break at all but became suddenly aware of its… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“But every time, what brought me to my senses was my conviction that before a person dropped a new life into this world, she… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she'd be part of a friendship in which she… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“But you're wrong. Happiness is EARNED, like everything else. It's achieved.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“Since you left there's been a you-shaped space beside me, all the time. It never goes away.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“In my experience, people love what they love. They just do. Or fail to love what they fail to love.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“A real life doesn’t mean getting what you want; the achievement, the priviledge, too, is knowing what you love. But getting what you love?… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t looking at her, was at such an oblique angle to her that his face was little more than a sliver, but she… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“We were friends. It was as big a deal as being in love.” She tried to think of a way to make Amelie understand.… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“...in my family I have comrades-hearty and loyal-when what I need are intimates, and I've never figured out how to get us all to… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“There are people whose deaths make you ache with sadness. And then there are people whose deaths prevent the sun from rising, deaths that… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
