“ ... sometimes we breathe because we have to, not because we want to ...”
―
Jillian Cantor,
Margot
“Lying can be a second skin, but when you are called out on that lie, it can become all too easy for that skin to start to peel away.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“Whereas it was so hard for people to break, but we could get sick or die in what seemed like a matter of seconds.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Life of Glass
“There isn't just one ending, one answer, one person who can make us happy, or not. Maybe we can all begin again, become different people.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Lost Letter
“You have to love someone to yell at them so intensely; you have to care so unbelievably much that your anger explodes and burns across the sky like the Soviet's Sputnik.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“But what I have come to understand as I watch the lonely flicker of my candle and listen for the faintest echo of Mother's voice is this: sometimes we breathe because we have to, not because we want to.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“You cannot let circumstances or misfortune or age stop you. You must make a choice to keep going. You always have a choice,” I told them.” ― Jillian Cantor, Half Life
“I am not lost, but I am without direction, and even though they sound the same, they are not.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“She’s a different person now. So is he, of course. But her memory is intact. She’s living her life in the future, in a Germany that’s finally free after so many years of her fighting. My father, on the other hand, is living his life in a muddled past.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Lost Letter
“Shelby's laugh is like water. Sometimes it's good, cleansing, even refreshing. Other times, I feel it might drown me.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“Shelby is so gullible; she believes every word I say to her, as if it is so easy just to believe the best in people.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“It was crazy the way I could break this glass, shatter it so quickly with just one false move, but I could not kill it, not really, not for a million years.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Life of Glass
“But I am thinking about the way Ezra yelled at Joshua, not so dissimilar to the way my mother and sister used to yell at each other. You have to love someone to yell at them so intensely; you have to care so unbelievably much that your anger explodes and burns across the sky like the Soviet's Sputnik I’ve read so much about. My sister always thought they fought because Mother hated her, but I knew better.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“Grief, she told me once when she was talking about Charlie, was forever. An endless, winding river.” ― Jillian Cantor, Beautiful Little Fools
“The edelweiss is an expression of love, you know. Proof of unusual daring, my father used to say. That’s how you proved you loved a girl. You ventured to the most dangerous mountain-tops to find an edelweiss to give her.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Lost Letter
“There isn't just one ending, one answer, one person who can make us happy, or not. Maybe we can all begin again, become different people.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Lost Letter
“My violin connects my present and my past, my dreams and my reality. My fingers move nimbly over the strings, my mind forgetting all I’ve lost or forgotten. There is only the music that is my constant companion. Nothing but the music. Not Stuart. Not Max. Not now. Not the past, either.” ― Jillian Cantor, In Another Time
“And it was strange, but Hanna almost didn’t feel real to him when he wasn’t with her. That someone so bright and beautiful and talented as her might want to be with him felt almost like a dream.” ― Jillian Cantor, In Another Time
“Grief fades and becomes lightness again.” ― Jillian Cantor, Half Life
“Lying can be a second skin, but when you are called out on that lie, it can become all too easy for that skin to start to peel away.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“Whereas it was so hard for people to break, but we could get sick or die in what seemed like a matter of seconds.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Life of Glass
“There isn't just one ending, one answer, one person who can make us happy, or not. Maybe we can all begin again, become different people.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Lost Letter
“You have to love someone to yell at them so intensely; you have to care so unbelievably much that your anger explodes and burns across the sky like the Soviet's Sputnik.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“But what I have come to understand as I watch the lonely flicker of my candle and listen for the faintest echo of Mother's voice is this: sometimes we breathe because we have to, not because we want to.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“You cannot let circumstances or misfortune or age stop you. You must make a choice to keep going. You always have a choice,” I told them.” ― Jillian Cantor, Half Life
“I am not lost, but I am without direction, and even though they sound the same, they are not.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“She’s a different person now. So is he, of course. But her memory is intact. She’s living her life in the future, in a Germany that’s finally free after so many years of her fighting. My father, on the other hand, is living his life in a muddled past.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Lost Letter
“Shelby's laugh is like water. Sometimes it's good, cleansing, even refreshing. Other times, I feel it might drown me.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“Shelby is so gullible; she believes every word I say to her, as if it is so easy just to believe the best in people.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“It was crazy the way I could break this glass, shatter it so quickly with just one false move, but I could not kill it, not really, not for a million years.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Life of Glass
“But I am thinking about the way Ezra yelled at Joshua, not so dissimilar to the way my mother and sister used to yell at each other. You have to love someone to yell at them so intensely; you have to care so unbelievably much that your anger explodes and burns across the sky like the Soviet's Sputnik I’ve read so much about. My sister always thought they fought because Mother hated her, but I knew better.” ― Jillian Cantor, Margot
“Grief, she told me once when she was talking about Charlie, was forever. An endless, winding river.” ― Jillian Cantor, Beautiful Little Fools
“The edelweiss is an expression of love, you know. Proof of unusual daring, my father used to say. That’s how you proved you loved a girl. You ventured to the most dangerous mountain-tops to find an edelweiss to give her.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Lost Letter
“There isn't just one ending, one answer, one person who can make us happy, or not. Maybe we can all begin again, become different people.” ― Jillian Cantor, The Lost Letter
“My violin connects my present and my past, my dreams and my reality. My fingers move nimbly over the strings, my mind forgetting all I’ve lost or forgotten. There is only the music that is my constant companion. Nothing but the music. Not Stuart. Not Max. Not now. Not the past, either.” ― Jillian Cantor, In Another Time
“And it was strange, but Hanna almost didn’t feel real to him when he wasn’t with her. That someone so bright and beautiful and talented as her might want to be with him felt almost like a dream.” ― Jillian Cantor, In Another Time
“Grief fades and becomes lightness again.” ― Jillian Cantor, Half Life
