107 quotes found
Author · American
American author
“People take one another for granted”
“This is what I want so don't be sad.”
“The sun stopped shining for me is all.”
“My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”
“I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.”
“dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.”
“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can j...”
“You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.”
“The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.”
“I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty.”
“He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.”
“It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.”
“Ill make a swing so I can reach the places I cant reach yet.”
“There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. ...”
“You're never going to be ready"..."Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away”
“I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her.”
“How it's so easy for her to not feel anything at all, to be just completely gone, to not be around to see how fucked up she's made me. She got to disappear completely and I feel like I'm about to c...”
“No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.”
“I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head. You just think that things will stay the way they are. Y...”
“That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.”
“Friendship is about more than facts. It's about knowing what someone is thinking, or knowing enough to know that you don't. But I guess it's also about not letting too much time go by without askin...”
“The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.”
