21 Quotes by Shana Abe

I lay in my bed and tried not to miss him, to miss the entire experience of him. I wanted to feel the shape of him beside me. I wanted him to touch my hair. To kiss me, long and velvety slow.

There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you’re quit of them.

It’s funny how your life can come apart in an instant. How you can feel safe and satisfied one moment, and the next you’re dangling over an abyss, no warning, no quarter. You’re absolutely about to fall.