“And that might just be the root of the problem: we’re all afraid of each other.” — Leslye Walton Afraid Copy Share Image
“And how perfectly I seemed to fit into the spaces of his body” — Leslye Walton Space Copy Share Image
“And then, in shocked disappointment, and stunned horror, I’m sure, Connor Lavender realized he was dead.” — Leslye Walton Death Copy Share Image
“it seemed there was no separating the girl from the wings. One could not survive without the other.” — Leslye Walton Girl Copy Share Image
“I met someone.' And the leaves fell from the trees, landing to float in the calm black waters.” — Leslye Walton Lost love Copy Share Image
“She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.” — Leslye Walton Difficult life Copy Share Image
“Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.” — Leslye Walton Just love Copy Share Image
“She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.” — Leslye Walton Every woman Copy Share Image
“Emilienne wore Maman's wedding dress. Just after the ceremony, Emilienne glanced in the mirror. She saw not her own reflection but a… — Leslye Walton Marriage Copy Share Image
“The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.” — Leslye Walton Love Copy Share Image
“The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as… — Leslye Walton Darkness Copy Share Image
“That fact filled Gabe with so much hope that he grew another two inches just to have enough room to hold it… — Leslye Walton Grew Copy Share Image
“To think Viviane was beautiful required a certain acquired taste. It was the kind of beauty perceived only through the eyes of… — Leslye Walton Acquired taste Copy Share Image
“Instead of dying, instead of slowly disappearing until only a broken body remained, what happened was quite the opposite - my body… — Leslye Walton Death Copy Share Image
“I acknowledged Gabe and his attempts at flight the way a legless child might view a hopeful but misguided parent buying a… — Leslye Walton Buying a house Copy Share Image
“By this point Viviane Lavender had loved Jack Griffith for twelve years, which was far more than half of her life. If… — Leslye Walton Cherry pie Copy Share Image
“This time could be different. This time it could last. Maybe it would be a longer, deeper love: a real and solid… — Leslye Walton Love Copy Share Image
“If she thought of her love as a commodity and were to, say, eat it, it would fill 4,745 cherry pies. If… — Leslye Walton Cherry Copy Share Image
“I found it ironic that I should be blessed with wings and yet feel so constrained, so trapped. It was because of… — Leslye Walton Average person Copy Share Image
“Because what else was there for me - an aberration, an untouchable, an outsider? What could I say when I was alone… — Leslye Walton Destiny Copy Share Image
“Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It… — Leslye Walton Bare branches Copy Share Image
“I knew that in the second letter he misspelled the word existence, replacing the second e with an a; in the fourth… — Leslye Walton Dreams Copy Share Image
“She wore light dabs of face powder on her cheeks to hide the permanent track marks left by so many tears.” — Leslye Walton Tears Copy Share Image
“And that might just be the root of the problem: we're all afraid of each other, wings or no wings.” — Leslye Walton Afraid Copy Share Image
“Summer rain smelled like newly clipped grass, like mouths stained red with berry juice - blueberries, raspberries, blackberries. It smelled like late… — Leslye Walton Rain Copy Share Image
“The first of many autumn rains smelled smoky, like a doused campsite fire, as if the ground itself had been aflame during… — Leslye Walton Fire Copy Share Image
“To many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. Some considered me a monster, a… — Leslye Walton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“For a very long time, Viviane and Jack lived in that world people inhabit before love. Some people called that place friendship;… — Leslye Walton Long time Copy Share Image
Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people. — Leslye Walton Betrayed Copy Share Image
“There was no separating the girl from the wings. One could not survive without the other.” — Leslye Walton Copy Share Image
“Foreseeing the future, I would later learn, means nothing if there is nothing to be done to prevent it.” — Leslye Walton Education Copy Share Image
“Love, as most know, follows its own timeline. Disregarding our intentions or well rehearsed plans.” — Leslye Walton Love Copy Share Image
