25 Quotes by Leah Stewart

attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like black magic. In front of my children, in front of my neighbors' house. If I'd really been a witch Nathan would have been a column of dust. Not even a lizard, not even a toad. Just nothing. Nothingness,

....and I'll know that this is what you live for - to hear someone say. "Let's go home," to hear someone you love call your name.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

A happy ending isn’t really the end. It’s just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

Here was the secret of this house, the thing it took bravery to face – that to go on loving someone means to over and over again allow the necessary pain.