13 Quotes by Hannah Tinti

Their hearts were all cycling through the same madness - the discovery, the bliss, the loss, the despair - like planets taking turns in orbit around the sun. Each containing their own unique gravity. Their own force of attractions. Drawing near and holding fast to whatever entered their own atmosphere ... they would find love and lost love and recover from love and love again.

Everything breaks if you hit it hard enough.

Something is making this happen, she’d thought. The whole world is alive and moving and I was meant to be here doing exactly this.

I have a good eye,” said Benjamin. “Most of the time I can look at a person and see their whole life. Small things give them away. That farmer, for instance. I could tell by the way he tied his shoes that he’d never traveled more than twenty miles from his home, and it was unlikely that he’d follow us for long. And that Father John of yours. I knew he had something hidden in that sleeve. And I knew he’d use it on you. The only thing I didn’t know was if you deserved it.

Love isn’t about keeping promises. It’s about knowing someone better than anyone else. I’m the only one who knows him. I’m the only one who ever will.

He said her name like it was something he’d already left behind. She could feel her heart twisting inside the walls of her chest.

Changing where you were could change how much you mattered.

I’m so tired I forget who I am sometimes.

He kept expecting something to happen, some outside force to sweep in and change everything and take him in some new direction, give him a more normal life.