So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.
Catherine Gilbert MurdockAnd have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?
Catherine Gilbert MurdockI ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.
Catherine Gilbert MurdockHow could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
Catherine Gilbert MurdockI swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe thatโs the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock