Inspirational Quotes by Krystelle Bamford — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“It was interesting in that we were excluded entirely but after a while we got restless and went inside, where there were some more of us sitting on the steps that went up to the bathroom and bedrooms and this lot was talking among themselves like birds before they fly off in one jaggy but coordinated movement. There were ten of us cousins give or take and the tallest and also the oldest one was Travis. He was twelve. He looked at us with his long, swinging jaw, trying to weigh us up. Time had passed since the last time we’d all been together, his face said, but blood was blood.”

“Anyway, I think about the lilac swing a lot, especially now that I’m older and most of us have families and jobs of our own and our hopes and disappointments have just become features of our lives we can tour like those bodies at Pompei.”