Someday, when I’m living my dreams, I’m going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I’m going to be thankful for them.
I love you, Butterscotch. You have the most beautiful heart of anyone I’ve ever met. And maybe you feel like a mess sometimes, and life is a mess sometimes, but the way I see it, you’re the beauty that came from the mess.
Eden, I vow this. My heart is yours. My life is yours. My body is yours. My art, my dreams. You own each and every part of me.
Are thy fighting or having a bookclub?
I don’t mind chasing you, Ellie. Just let me catch you once in a while.
When it came to you, I noticed everything. I fell halfway in love with you before we ever spoke a word.
But what I did know was that I loved a girl. And I knew I loved her in a way I’d never, ever recover from. I knew I loved her to the very core of myself. And I knew she loved me back.
Happily ever after doesn’t mean a lifetime of perfection. I don’t think anyone believes that happily ever after means there are no unhappy days, even unhappy years. It means loving forever, despite all the many reasons it’s easier not to.
And maybe we all saw books differently based on our own hearts.
Sometimes we wore such hurtful, limiting labels in this life, whether they’d been assigned by others or by ourselves. I’d felt damaged and ruined once, but I didn’t anymore. I was still a work in progress, but I wasn’t a victim. I was a survivor. – Gabriel.
They don’t know who you are, Archer. They have no idea. And they don’t deserve to know. Don’t let their judgment hurt you.
Sometimes it’s right to meet in the middle, but sometimes, the simplest act of grace is to meet the other person where they are. That, that is love.
As I stood there holding onto him, it occurred to me that not all great acts of courage are obvious to those looking in from the outside. But I saw this moment for what it was–a boy who had never been made to feel that he was wanted anywhere, showing up and asking others to accept him. It made my heart soar with pride for the beautiful act of bravery that was Archer Hale stepping into this small town diner.
There’s always someone society chooses not to see. There’s always someone who is invisible through no fault of their own.
The colorful sky stretched before us – magnificent – as if it was trying to make up for the ugliness of our lives, our constant struggles. And for just the briefest, most fleeting of moments, maybe it did.
There’s nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you’re lost and afraid.
I love you, Morning Glory. It’s always been your heart that kept me alive. Your love. Your sweetness. I painted you to keep you alive, and that’s what kept me breathing, too.
No matter who we are, we have to take the hand we’re dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway... to have faith that there’s a purpose to the journey we’re on... And try to believe that maybe more light shines out of those who have the most cracks.
It’s not the things you do with love and good intentions that you end up regretting. It’s the things you don’t do that you have to live with.
He looked like a prince, but if I were going to cast him in a fairy tale now, I’d cast him as The Dragon! A beastly, judgmental, fire-breathing dragon.