“That no matter what happens, loving someone to the best of your ability is the right thing to do. It's the only… — Marisa de los Santos Love 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 Arrogant 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Happiness isn't what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don't exist. . . Happiness is earned, like everything else. It's achieved. ” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I can't stand lies. Probably no one can. Probably everyone is, to varying degrees, allergic to them, both spiritually and physically. Lies… — Marisa de los Santos Lies 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Yes, it’s true, what I said earlier: A real life doesn’t mean geting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too, is… — Marisa de los Santos Getting love 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“To understand that you have blown it, that you can never fix it is one of the worst feelings ever.” — Marisa de los Santos 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
“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
“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
“There were people who could live on their own and be happy, and then there were people like Pen and Margaret who… — Marisa de los Santos Daily work 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
“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
“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 Confusion 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
“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
“...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
“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
