I believe it's a miracle in life when you find people who care about and desire the same things you do, and creativity does that -- brings those people together in one place.
Patti Callahan HenryWhen you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.
Patti Callahan HenryA broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.
Patti Callahan HenryTags: men ocean summer broken-heart country-songs
No Matter how you try to cover up smoke, it must come out.
Patti Callahan HenryMaybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.
Patti Callahan HenryYou need to take care of the root in order to heal the tree. - Gullah Proverb
Patti Callahan HenryI DID my life - one thing to do after another, always something else to do. Because you don't need a heart to DO, but you do need one to live.
Patti Callahan HenryTheir words faded into the darkness as if they were spoken and unspoken at the same time; as if they were important and yet not at all, as if they were two people talking or maybe just one.
Darkness, she understood later, easily confused the meaning of words, of skin touching skin. In their remaining summers together she tried to find that oneness again. When it was all over,
when youth ended and he chose Maisy, she understood the lesson from the dock that night: she could never again call her feelings of intimacy and oneness love. Nor would she be fooled again into believing that her love was returned, that a boy felt more for her than friendship.
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She allowed the sweet thrill of hearing Mack Logan’s voice, even in the background, run through her before she dismissed it as another childhood fantasy. When they’d been best friends as children, she’d had an unbounded belief in mermaids and fairies, in fairytales and nature’s mysteries. She’d believed she could fly with Peter Pan, breathe underwater, walk without touching the ground. And she believed Mack Logan loved her. Reality had a way of ruining a girl’s dreams.
Patti Callahan HenryTags: love
I can’t go back to what we had in childhood. I can’t relive those times, retrace my tracks and undo what’s been done. It’s not like writing a book and rewriting the ending to make it happier.
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