86 Quotes by Amy Engel
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I just want to be with you. Walk next to you, Ivy, wherever you’re headed. That’s all.
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I didn’t have a bad childhood, but there was no magic in it. No one hit me, no one neglected me, but there wasn’t much that was childlike about it. Even fun involved barely disguised lessons about my future and my father’s plans. It is only now, away from the presence of my family, that I can admit that to myself.
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A boy who doesn’t want to lie, married to a girl who can’t tell the truth.
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I love you,” he says quietly. I want to take his words, the truth of them I can see on his face, and cup them in my hands like a glowing coal from the fire. Keep them with me warm and bright, a talisman.
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You think I had a choice?” Bishop demands. “What choice? I’m not like your father or Callie, Ivy. I was never going to just let you go. I love you. There was never any choice.
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Because that’s the one thing women are never, ever allowed to be. We can be sad, distraught, confused, pleading, forgiving. But not furious. Fury is reserved for other people. The worst thing you can be is an angry woman, an angry mother.
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I don’t understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.
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One summer is enough. Hell, sometimes one day is all it takes to change your life.
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I knew well the painful futility of reaching for more than you were ever likely to get, how much easier it was to simply accept the limits of your world.
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