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391 pages, Hardcover
First published April 4, 2017
"I don’t know what the point of this story is, except maybe to say that sometimes you get to a point where it hurts too much, and you’ll do anything to get rid of the pain. Even if it means doing something that hurts someone else."
"Don’t you think it’s funny how people say “lost” as if they were just misplaced? But maybe it’s a different meaning of “lost,” in that you don’t know where they went."
There’s a definition for insanity that talks about doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
Sometimes I think fate conspires against us. Or maybe fate conspires with us.
You want to know what I believe? I believe in fate, but I also believe in free will. Meaning, there’s a path, but we’re free to veer away from it. The only problem is that there’s no way to know whose path we’re following at any given moment. Our own? Or fate’s? Other people are on their own paths, too. What happens when we intersect? What happens when someone else wipes our path clean, and we’re left with no road to follow? Is that fate? Is that when free will kicks in? Is the path there, but invisible?
Who the hell knows?
“One day isn’t your whole life, Murph.” He waits until I look at him. “A day is just a day.”
“We’re all united by grief, and somehow divided by the same thing.”
“There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, when the glow of early thought declines in feeling’s dull decay.”
“One day isn't your whole life. A day is just a day.”
“Do you believe in fate? Sometimes I want to. I want to believe that we all walk some path toward… something, and our paths intertwine for a reason. Like this, the way we’ve found each other. The way you told me the right story when I so desperately needed to hear it.”The connection that these two characters had was something. It just shows you that opposites truly do attract sometimes, and people are so much more than what they seem. I read Rev’s book before this one, so I already kind of knew Declan, but I loved seeing more of his story. His past broke my heart. The pain, grief, and responsibility he felt was crushing. And Juliet is also drowning in grief. These two needed each other more than they ever could have known.
"Sometimes you get to a point where it hurts too much, and you'll do anything to get rid of the pain. Even if it means doing something that hurts someone else."
#1 Letters to the Lost ★★★★★
#2 More Than We Can Tell ★★★☆☆
“What you wrote implies that you understand agony. I don’t think you do. If you did, you wouldn’t have interfered with mine.”
“When everything goes to hell around you, the only way to go is forward.”
“One day isn't your whole life. A day is just a day.”
Sometimes I think fate conspires against us. Or maybe fate conspires with us.
“You’re okay,” he says again. I like that, how he’s so sure. Not, “Are you okay?” No question about it. You’re okay.
Juliet Young writes letters to her mother... and leaves them at her grave.
She never imagined someone would write back...
Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. It's the only way Juliet can cope.
Declan Murphy isn't the sort of guy you want to cross. In the midst of his court-ordered community service at the local cemetery, he's trying to escape the demons of his past.
When Declan reads a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist writing back. Soon, he's opening up to a perfect stranger, and their connection is immediate. But neither Declan nor Juliet knows that they're not actually strangers...
Do you believe in fate? Sometimes I want to. I want to believe that we all walk some path toward… something, and our paths intertwine for a reason. Like this, the way we’ve found each other. The way you told me the right story when I so desperately needed to hear ti.
”When everything goes to hell around you, the only way to go is forward.”