81 Quotes by Marisa de los Santos

My life – my real life – started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit, and, yes I know how that sounds.

I know a lot of people do jobs their whole lives that they don’t find fascinating. Wonder is a luxury. But I wanted it.

When he looked up, he said, “Clare told me about Christmas.” And I swear the boy’s face began to shine. I recognized what I saw there: that a person’s name could be infinitely precious, that just saying it could make you feel singled out for glory.

Back when we were in love, even after we’d been together for years, that smile never stopped taking me by surprise. It was found money, an arrowhead, a shooting star, a great, shiny stroke of luck every single time.

Cornelia pulled love around me like a coat, tugged it shut, and did up the buttons, as if I belonged to her. And so I did.

To understand that you have blown it, that you can never fix it is one of the worst feelings ever.

Maybe she would remember who he was, and maybe she would come back.

Cornelia – who was in town dropping off her children at her parents’ house for a week of, as she put it, “unfettered joy, limitless pie, and irreversible spoiling.

But sometimes, a boat needs to rock; a boat needs to head straight for the heart of a storm and come out on the other side, weather beaten but with flags flying.