"The words made it more real. Words always did; even when you didn’t want them to."

Continental shift of relationships

"The two of you stood there, side by side, and the tectonic plates of your lives began to shift and resettle, continents separating."

~ Stay Awake by Dan Chaon

Moments of clarity - and murkier days

"She felt she should know. She felt that if she were truly magical she should know. The knowledge should be very solid and bright. She shouldn't be filled with such uncertainties."

~ A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee

#RealTalk

"Most people who have rough backgrounds will admit there's something unsettling about finding happiness after difficulty -- that even after we unwrap this gift, we don't know how to stop searching, rummaging, pilfering for something else. We walk haltingly through life, ready for the other shoe to drop. The question is not if, but when."

 ~ Life From Scratch by Sasha Martin

Time has a way of molding people...

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"Time had a way of molding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognized."
~ Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Mercurial mothers and longing for stability

"With a mother as mercurial as mine I was constantly searching for absolutes...."
~ Always Watching by Chevy Stevens

Definition of mercurial: "characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood." 

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

"It made her feel very despondent 
to be a one-pocketed girl." 

 ~ Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

 Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard doesn't believe in anything that can't be proven by science -- until she discovers a boy locked away in a long forgotten room.