47 quotes found
“The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.”
“Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.”
“But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it’s been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded—that’s how I feel about her. She wasn’t there ver...”
“A part of me will probably always be waitin’ for her. And even when I get to the end of this life and she’s not there, I think I’ll still just wait. It’s the cruel reality of love, I think—that onc...”
“We’re all livin’ in the past...we’re really always eighty milliseconds behind life happenin’. ...that’s how long it takes our brains to comprehend what’s already taken place right in front of our e...”
“I set my face toward the sun again, and I think about my old life—the one I feel as though I’ve abandoned somehow. It hurts to think of it that way. And even though I know it wasn’t perfect, I look...”
“The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.”
“She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory–forever there to complicate the present, forev...”
“Big events, small, mundane moments of the day–it doesn’t matter; the past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.”
“She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.”
“I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I’ve learned you don’t so easily get it back.”
“Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, for...”
“I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back.”
“Little girl, little boyIf love has a wayFill their fields with laughterAnd scatter the sun on their dayAnd if it should happen to rainMake their raindrops kissesStraight from heaven aboveThat touch...”
“Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.”
“I’ll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.”
“Because I seeA rainstorm in JuneJust before the sunThe black of nightJust before the starsAnd, girl, I see your ghostJust before our dawn”
“Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.”
“because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly”
“There is an uncharacteristic radicalism to Lewis’s further suggestion that if we can find “even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had ...”
