Running River Quotes

Love is a powerful thing, more powerful than blood, although both run through us like a river.

There is a kind of sadness that transcends sadness, that runs like hot syrup into every crevice of your being, beginning in the heart then oozing into your very cells and bloodstream, so that nothing-not earth or sky or even your own palm ever looks the same. This is the sadness that changes everything.

Iris had recently learned there was a word for the scent of rain: petrichor, a pleasant, refreshing note with a cool mineral glint--- but this rainwater wasn't running through green grass or skipping over smooth river rocks.