20 Quotes by Julia Heaberlin

There's a reason you feel the need to blame yourself," he continues, "from all accounts you're a very careful girl. If you accept the blame, decide you took a rare misstep, you can reassure yourself this was not a random event. If you blame yourself you can believe you're still in control of your universe. You're not, you never will be.

She is wearing a double helix made of gold.The twisted ladder of life.A strand of DNA.

Imperfect pieces that when put together make something beautiful and original.

Houston stretches out before us, a modern goddess, bruised by not defeated.

It’s the kind of storm that Yankees make fun of on Facebook with a picture of a spilled cup of ice on the sidewalk that shuts down schools or a cartoon that depicts massive car pileups with one culprit snowflake. It would be funny, if a tenth of an inch of ice in Texas wasn’t deadly.

The kind of desktop where passion is screwing organization and nobody’s making the bed.

There’s a reason you feel the need to blame yourself,” he continues, “from all accounts you’re a very careful girl. If you accept the blame, decide you took a rare misstep, you can reassure yourself this was not a random event. If you blame yourself you can believe you’re still in control of your universe. You’re not, you never will be.

My grandfather told me that God puts pieces in the wrong places to keep us busy solving puzzles, and in the perfect places so that we never forget there is a God.

It would be very hard to live in Lydia’s head. I imagined it blindingly bright and chaotic, like an exploding star. Both sides of her brain constantly at war.