Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.
Maile MeloyTags: marriage
I baptize you in the name of the conservation of energy. What comes around goes around.
Maile MeloyWe're creating little hedonists,' Frank used to say. 'Nothing will be as pleasurable as this for the rest of their lives. They'll search everywhere for something that can measure up, and nothing will.
Maile MeloyHe held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door.
Maile MeloyChildren were experiments, and his had failed.
Maile MeloyThe force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?
Maile MeloyHis heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.
Maile MeloyAll the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrumming promise of having everything he wanted, all at once.
Maile MeloyAt the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.
Maile MeloyNow, alone on the roof, Valentine looked at her shoes and wished people would either stay or go away, but not constantly coming back and leaving again.
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