Leslye Walton quotes:

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Love, at most know, follows its own timeline. Disregarding our intentions or well rehearsed plans.

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

Love makes us such fools.

The first of many autumn rains smelled smoky, like a doused campsite fire, as if the ground itself had been aflame during those hot summer months. It smelled like burnt piles of collected leaves, the cough of a newly revived chimney, roasted chestnuts, the scent of a man's hands after hours spent in a wood shop."

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people