26 Quotes by L.B. Dunbar

I don't need the deed to the land, Bee. I need the deed to your heart.

Love is a strange beast.

It was innocent. It didn’t mean anything to her. But it meant everything to me.

You don’t touch a book, William. You read it. You enjoy.” I imitate her voice and her words to me from weeks ago, and her brows lift. “You’re a book I want to touch and read and enjoy over and over again.

Blood is blood, son, and we all share it. The entire human race shares it. Family, that bond is what we make of it.

I felt sick at the thought that I wasn’t really giving Layne anything.

And if he was alive and well, why didn’t he come back to us?

When you have nowhere else to go, home is where you go.

For a nanosecond, I wanted her to hurt if she thought she lost me, like I hurt knowing I had lost her, all those years ago. I was a selfish person because I wanted her to be crying over me, and that just made me all kinds of a bad person.