21 Quotes by Sarah Henstra

I was asleep almost before I could close the flap on the tent.Sleeping all day. This must be one of the ways people hide from pain.

Adam,” my brother said, “let’s not be the type of people who are afraid to live because we might die.

You undid me, Kurl, in more ways than one.

I don’t know what was in my head before I met you. What did I even think about? Because whatever it was, it’s not in there anymore. It’s gone. I am completely, one hundred percent all the time filled up with you.

We’re all bending over backward to get you to crack a smile, because when you smile it feels like the sun coming out.

My beautiful, laughable fable of a life.

A word kept flashing in my head. One word, over and over, like a flashing neon sign. Lucky.

I want to walk down the hallways of Lincoln High with one part of me in the eternal, the timeless, and the other part of me slipping so fast through the here and now that nobody can pin me down, not even the butcherboys.

And then I’ll read one of your letters and think, People have no idea what I’m like. I mean the gap between what people see and what’s actually in my head sort of shocks me when I read your letters. I guess everyone has this gap. It’s just that they don’t come face-to-face with it very often.