“Nowadays, I want to be smart, but back then, I'm afraid I wanted to seem smart, too.” — 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 Fate 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 Time 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
“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
“The examples seemed to fall into two categories: girls who used sweetness and girls who used pluck.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“It just seems like we --human beings -- know so much, but it's nothing compared to what we don't know.” — Marisa de los Santos Nature of man Copy Share Image
“Chicken Soup for the Soul". You've heard of these books, am I right? We've all heard of them. But I wonder if… — Marisa de los Santos Books 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 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
“Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had… — Marisa de los Santos Love 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
“Everything turned on the word "we", a synonym for love, the thing that saves us all.” — Marisa de los Santos Love 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 Gratitude 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 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
“Maybe she would remember who he was, and maybe she would come back.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“In my experience, people love what they love. They just do.” — Marisa de los Santos Love Copy Share Image
“I've always found allegories kind of comforting. When you encounter people named Liar and Abstinence, you might not be crazy about them,… — Marisa de los Santos 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 Happiness 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
“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
“If you're going to rip someone off, it might as well be Audrey Hepburn.” — 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
