4 Quotes by Emily Horner

I had always been blithely convinced that if I followed the side roads for long enough I’d trip over something wonderful, that thing you never know you’re looking for until you land on it that suddenly makes the universe a much bigger place than it ever had been before.

Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?

We’d been twelve years old together. We’d shared the convictions that only twelve year olds can share, that love is simple and powerful and easy and inevitable.

I sat there in the darkness, with their skin clsoe to me, and I felt lifted up and wrapped with kindness. And very small, because I didn’t deserve this, but small the way a mouse in its den is small: warm and safe and protected.