Martine Leavitt Quotes

It is life that hurts you not death.

Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.

In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples.