“I saw the autumn leaves peel up of the street, Take wing on the balmy breeze and sweep you off your feet”
“You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.”
“If you let someone sweep you off your feet, you better be prepared to land on your ass.”
“Love is a tidal wave--not because it sweeps you off your feet, but because it pulls you down and drowns you.”
“Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.”
“Some people thought spring was the time of renewal, but Sadie had always equated that feeling with autumn. It felt like a shedding of mistakes - falling leaves, crisp breezes. As if you could cast off an old skin to work on a new one.”