“You’re human, and you have to reconcile that with yourself somehow. Forgive yourself. Allow yourself to feel everything deeply, to grow and learn.”
―
Leesa Cross-Smith,
This Close to Okay
“How sometimes your body couldn't tell the difference between not loving someone enough and loving someone too much.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Every Kiss a War
“After love, forgiveness is the strongest glue holding every family together.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close To Okay
“Women, you are sleek and gorgeous. You hold us together, you’re the ribbons. We’re men. Dangerous only if you take us too seriously. We’re the whiskey. To whiskey and ribbons.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Whiskey & Ribbons
“What no one tells you about grief is that you don’t want to figure out a way to live with it—you want the part of you that hurts to die instead” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Whiskey & Ribbons
“A kaleidoscope of contradicting feelings spun in her heart, the colored glass of it shattering and revealing a new emotion with every turn.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay
“He kisses like a dying man. He kisses like he worships women. Your mouth is his church.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Every Kiss a War
“I can hear it coming. Healing. The train tracks leading to my heart are warmed by it. I can put my hand there and feel it hot. It is rattling towards me. Rumbling. The buzzing sound of a flickering light at the end of the tunnel. A grief train rumbling away from us. A healing train coming our way... Everything. In rhythm. All of it - glowing and glowing - light spilling and pouring and rushing through the cracks of the bits glued back together. This shattered life. This broken bright.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Whiskey & Ribbons
“Nostalgia is a knife.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Half-Blown Rose
“I had lived long enough and been married long enough to know men were always telling women what they already knew.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, So We Can Glow: Stories
“Vincent loves that people in foreign countries sit down to chop. Americans do everything standing up.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Half-Blown Rose
“We have these badges. FBI X-Files badges.” “Oh! Let’s be Mulder and Scully instead!” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close To Okay
“I don't ever want to get over it! I never want to get tired or bored of beauty and goodness.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay
“She thought of her good and bad days as Morse code messages- every little bit recorded in her bones -wanting to honor the time and energy it took for them to be translated and transcribed.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay
“It’s always good to have something to do…to look forward to. It keeps our brains happy.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close To Okay
“How sometimes your body couldn't tell the difference between not loving someone enough and loving someone too much.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Every Kiss a War
“After love, forgiveness is the strongest glue holding every family together.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close To Okay
“Women, you are sleek and gorgeous. You hold us together, you’re the ribbons. We’re men. Dangerous only if you take us too seriously. We’re the whiskey. To whiskey and ribbons.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Whiskey & Ribbons
“What no one tells you about grief is that you don’t want to figure out a way to live with it—you want the part of you that hurts to die instead” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Whiskey & Ribbons
“A kaleidoscope of contradicting feelings spun in her heart, the colored glass of it shattering and revealing a new emotion with every turn.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay
“He kisses like a dying man. He kisses like he worships women. Your mouth is his church.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Every Kiss a War
“I can hear it coming. Healing. The train tracks leading to my heart are warmed by it. I can put my hand there and feel it hot. It is rattling towards me. Rumbling. The buzzing sound of a flickering light at the end of the tunnel. A grief train rumbling away from us. A healing train coming our way... Everything. In rhythm. All of it - glowing and glowing - light spilling and pouring and rushing through the cracks of the bits glued back together. This shattered life. This broken bright.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Whiskey & Ribbons
“Nostalgia is a knife.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Half-Blown Rose
“I had lived long enough and been married long enough to know men were always telling women what they already knew.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, So We Can Glow: Stories
“Vincent loves that people in foreign countries sit down to chop. Americans do everything standing up.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, Half-Blown Rose
“We have these badges. FBI X-Files badges.” “Oh! Let’s be Mulder and Scully instead!” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close To Okay
“I don't ever want to get over it! I never want to get tired or bored of beauty and goodness.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay
“She thought of her good and bad days as Morse code messages- every little bit recorded in her bones -wanting to honor the time and energy it took for them to be translated and transcribed.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay
“It’s always good to have something to do…to look forward to. It keeps our brains happy.” ― Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close To Okay
