Sarah Will
Sarah Will
Sarah Will is a paralympic skier who spent 11 years on the U.S. Disabled Ski Team. During this time, she earned a record 13 medalswhile competing in four Winter Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2002. Will serves as a ski instructor and is otherwise active in the Vail community. She was named to the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in July 2009 and is a nominee for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame...
believe weather kind
He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.
beautiful mother daughter
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
home air smell
There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.
tongue world wanted
He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.
girl
Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.
believe pride night
Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless, almost as if they couldn't look away. "They remind you of something good--picnics or carrying sparklers around at night. Southern men will hold doors open for you, they'll hold you after you yell at them, and they'll hold on to their pride no matter what. Be careful what they tell you, though. They have a way of making you believe anything, because they say it that way.
book looks accepted
She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
kissing water this-day
To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
want able remember
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
trying finding-happiness lost
I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
swimming differences effort
He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.
men trying way
Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over...
daughter dream strong
She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.
knows
We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.