21 Quotes by Meara O'Hara

I left something behind in the heat and the vastness of this continent, and I was reborn as something I knew I had always been: a wanderess.

The feeling of homelessness suddenly turned into something else. I called it freedom to wander.

Over the years, I had come to understand many things, but one was the clearest of all: you can survive anything if only you have one true friend.

Without knowing it, we became soul sisters

I knew then that this hug had been the greatest teacher of my young life.

I suddenly felt the weight lift off my shoulders as the whole world seemed wild and wonderful. I closed my eyes, holding my breath, trying to hold onto the moment. I wanted to forget that it wouldn't last forever. I wanted to forget that I couldn't be the wind. I wanted to forget that when the car stopped, I would be me and he would be him again.

In a way, Nellie Smith’s hot chocolate changed everything

There had not been an attachment to it; it wasn't supposed to change me, it wasn't supposed to make me do anything and, for the first time, it had stopped feeling odd or as though I didn't deserve it, I had learnt to let myself be loved.

For this brief moment, he was the anchor and I was the boat caught in my sea of doubt and despair until we were back in his house where everything seemed to be so ordinary.