Tallulah Hart Quotes

“What mattered was not caring. “And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.”

“She hadn’t realized how much she’d needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life story unimportant, gave her something to reach for, to hang on to.”

“How do you keep hold of a dream like that?” “With both hands.”

“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ”

“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”

“This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.”

“Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.”

“Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don’t call it falling for nothing.”

“Do you love him?” “How would I know?” “You’d know.”

“I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.”

“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”

“She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.”

“She knew, too, that love didn’t evaporate. It faded, perhaps, lost its weight like bones left out in the sun, but it didn’t go away.”

“The Mularkeys all saw love as a durable, reliable thing, easy to recognize ... Love could be more fragile than a sparrow’s bone.”