Tess Callahan Quotes & Sayings

Infatuation burns itself out,' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry
that can last a lifetime. — Tess Callahan

He was so close she could almost hear the movement of his thoughts, the role of the tide; she had slipped inside his skin. — Tess Callahan

You need to start doing what's uncomfortable for you, April. Because your idea of what feels right took a left turn somewhere. — Tess Callahan

It hurts not because she is a failure, but because he finally sees so. — Tess Callahan

All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green. — Tess Callahan

Because we're all rainbow-colored inside, each of us a different arrangement, of course. The kiss just makes all the colors more concentrated, so intense they can be hard to look at. Or feel, rather. Like a Mediterranean sunset. — Tess Callahan

I'm not saying that you think about it all the time. It just leaves you different than it found you. — Tess Callahan

This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's a fucked-up way, like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it's a trap. — Tess Callahan