“Soon, the two of them would leave this spot. . . walk into the house and into a whole changed world. . . ” — Marisa de los Santos Changed Copy Share Image
“I don't think love is blind, but wanting to be in love, that's probably blind.” — Marisa de los Santos Love Copy Share Image
“The examples seemed to fall into two categories: girls who used sweetness and girls who used pluck.” — Marisa de los Santos Girls Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, happiness feels so fragile…So what do we do about it?...Live. Forget that it’s fragile. Live like it isn’t” — Marisa de los Santos Fragile 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 Feel 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 Cafe Copy Share Image
“Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.” — Marisa de los Santos Best man Copy Share Image
“If you're going to rip someone off, it might as well be Audrey Hepburn.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“If I were to ever have a full-fledged vocation, as opposed to a half-assed avocation, I needed to love it and, in… — Marisa de los Santos Career 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… — Marisa de los Santos Cried Copy Share Image
“Inside plum trees stood in a row, flowers lifted their pale throats to the moon and stars, a magnolia held its tight-closed… — Marisa de los Santos Flower Copy Share Image
“Linney moves in the world with such firm, certain steps, being with her can make you forget your own confusion, at least… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, a boat needs to rock; a boat needs to head straight for the heart of a storm and come out… — Marisa de los Santos River Copy Share Image
“Soldiers in the heat of battle; death-row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired… — Marisa de los Santos Parenting Copy Share Image
“I don’t think love is blind, true love is probably the most clear-eyed state of being there is.’ ‘Maybe you’re right. Maybe… — Marisa de los Santos Love 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… — Marisa de los Santos Comrades Copy Share Image
“You know what he said? He said that being away from me is less like being away from a person than being… — Marisa de los Santos Like Away Copy Share Image
“Magic can happen in a car, a warm, intimate magic born of being in an enclosed, particular place and, simultaneously, being nowhere,… — Marisa de los Santos Magic Copy Share Image
“Still Dev missed him. Not all the time or even very often, but now and then, missing would hit Dev, throw him… — Marisa de los Santos Missed 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,… — Marisa de los Santos Death Copy Share Image
“The sight made her ache. How can I not touch you? she thought hopelessly, and then she was doing it, her fingers… — Marisa de los Santos Desire Copy Share Image
“All those films in which the woman doesn't get her man, those films of yearning unsatisfied, hearts unappeased. You like them; I've… — Marisa de los Santos Cinema Copy Share Image
“What’s killing him is the idea that I will die unhappy, in a miserable marriage. He hates that my life isn’t ending… — Marisa de los Santos Good man Copy Share Image
“To understand that you have blown it, that you can never fix it is one of the worst feelings ever.” — Marisa de los Santos Blown Copy Share Image
“What do you do when you're in love with the last man in the world you can have? You plan a life,… — Marisa de los Santos Life Copy Share Image
“Don't ask for the moon -- we have the stars!" Pardon my saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!” — Marisa de los Santos Astronomy Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond… — Marisa de los Santos Arrogant Copy Share Image
“Everything turned on the word "we", a synonym for love, the thing that saves us all.” — Marisa de los Santos Love Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, I want to be smart, but back then, I'm afraid I wanted to seem smart, too.” — Marisa de los Santos Afraid Copy Share Image
“She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine.” — Marisa de los Santos Character Copy Share Image
“You mustn't let men drive you to mangling the English language, no matter how sweet they are.” — Marisa de los Santos English language 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… — Marisa de los Santos Friends 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… — Marisa de los Santos Candor Copy Share Image
“We talked and talked and talked. Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in… — Marisa de los Santos Love Copy Share Image
“My life - my real life - started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit,… — Marisa de los Santos Life 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… — Marisa de los Santos Getting love 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 Fate Copy Share Image
“Clare concentrated on the words trying hard to press them into her memory and wishing they were solid objects that she could… — Marisa de los Santos Heart 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 Love Copy Share Image
“In certain situations, you can't worry about how people will react. You just have to be as honest as you can and… — Marisa de los Santos Certain Situations Copy Share Image
