12 Quotes by Abby Slovin

The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing.

Parker, I'm old," She said matter-of-factly. "I get away with these things." She continued to wave and smile wildly. "People treat me like an idiot so I'm allowed to act like one from time to time. It's one of the perks.

Fact is just fiction with different storytellers

Parker fixated on the envelope's precise penmanship as she lifted it. Her grandmother rarely took the time to write her own name in the return address, let alone give it the aesthetic attention that this one so seemed to demand. Once, when Parker questioned her on this, her grandmother casually asserted that she "didn't quite believe in envelopes" as if this were a debatable concept like Socialism or wearing white after Labor Day.

Like a palindrome, like the way a perfect day should be.

She stood before him on the porch now, as living, breathing proof that fortune had not tipped itself in his direction all those years ago.

She approached the car with a confident stride that implied she had lived on the block her whole life.

Old friends have a way of reminding you of what you used to be. In an instant, I remembered everything I once was and I realized how much I’d changed.

Parker let the letter drop to the floor, an act she often criticized in movies for its melodrama.