29 Quotes by Roan Parrish

Are you boiling bacon? “Um. Is that wrong?” I say. “Argh! I want to punch you!” Leo says.

Then she says something about the universe sending us pieces of our past selves to embrace so we can heal them and I must be drunker than I thought because I don’t follow her at all.

Don’t you know? Don’t you know how crazy I am about you?” My hands fist in his shirt and I stare into his eyes, blinking slowly. I guess I did know, but I never imagined he might say it. He cradles my neck in his hand, thumb stroking my nape. “I – I love you so much.” He says it quietly, but it’s like a bomb going off.

Music. You out?” she asked. “I have been. But” – he shot a look at me – “I’m maybe wading back into the Mississippi. You know how it goes.” “I do,” Dot said. Then she cast a glance at me, quick as a knife blade. “You watch yourself in there, see. She muddy. And she changing course.” “I’m a big boy, Dot. And I can swim. But thanks.” He kissed her cheek. “Is this metaphor gonna stretch any thinner?” I asked. “Because the river would like to get a damn drink and listen to some music.

The handwriting in the letter is the neatest I’ve ever seen. It looks like an old-fashioned love letter or something, every loop perfectly formed. I guess you have a lot of time to practice penmanship in prison.

There was this wall of ice between us that no amount of sunniness could melt. We had been inseparable before that. I could see him through it. The wall. He was the same as he always was. And he wanted to spend time with me the way he always had. But I was untouchable. He threw himself up against the wall over and over because he couldn’t see it. But I couldn’t do anything from my side except watch him pick himself up, every time a little more bruised, and do it again.

Feel so much better when you’re around,” I tell him. “’S not fair you get to be with you all the time.

They became convinced that I thought I was better than them when the truth was that I just knew they would never like me if they knew who I really was and what I really wanted. Love me. They would never love me.

It’s like the cartoon physics of awareness: we can’t hurt until we see that we’re supposed to.