50 Quotes by Ashley Herring Blake

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    Because when they thought the stars were sticking to her, really all the loneliness and sadness were falling off. The stars were underneath.

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    My belief seems to break her. It breaks me, too. To believe one person is to disbelieve another.

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    It’s okay not to be okay. Most people don’t think so, but I do. It has to be okay to not be okay all the time.

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    Sadness is awkward. Grief is awkward. A missing mother is awkward, no matter what form that missing takes. And no one likes awkward. No one knows what to do with it unless you’re the person used to receiving all those averted gazes.

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    She tilts her head and puts her soft hand on my face, letting her fingertips glide down my neck, to my chest. She flattens her palm there, the heat of her hand searing through my shirt. “You’re... ” She pauses and I take a breath, my heart thumping madly. “I don’t know. It sounds stupid, but... you’re like home.

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    The words fall out of my mouth like rain- I felt them coming, smelled them in the air, but there was nothing I could do to stop them.

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    Such a loaded word – live. It could simply mean existing. Heart pumping blood, lungs taking in air. Or it could meant settling into something. Being a part of what’s around you. Investing.” -Grace.

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