26 Quotes by Barbara O'Neal

A lifetime of secrets and lies later, I drive through the dark back to my neighborhood.

A line of Shakespeare, lodged in my head from one of the only classes I ever attended regularly in high school, runs through my mind: “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

It was as if their feet ran on parallel train tracks and pulled in at the same stations at the same time, over and over.

I do know that it’s hard to be the children of parents who are obsessed with each other.

Life had washed me here on this strange errand. Maybe the best thing to do was to just let it show me what it had in mind.

He sat across from her and took her small hands in his own. “Babe, you don’t have to carry the world. I’ve got it, okay?

You couldn’t unsee a thing once it was seen, unknow it once it was known.

Vermicelli alla siracusana.