“Believing is never a waste of time." Simon looked at me intently his eyes flickering. "Even if you're wrong you could have been right. Take me with my painting I don't know if I'm any good. So maybe I shouldn't… — 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 water. It was safe. Simon was splashing somewhere ahead of me. He couldn’t see. It was an amazing feeling. I felt free. Or at least half of me did. And right then that seemed to "t… — 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 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. When you’re out walking this way, you’ll pass the gazebo, where, chances are, I will be smoking.” “Then what?” “You can signal—say, three times if you want to take a walk with me. Twice if you… — 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 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
