Amy Lin > Quotes

“I cannot believe how much pain we are asked to bear when we are alive. How, even if there is a way, no one can show us how to live with it.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“I ask him, when we are engaged, how someone so indecisive can be so sure I am the one for him. You weren’t a choice, he says. It was always you.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“I have never known how to love something in moderation.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“Whenever I receive something I truly want, I am instantly terrified of losing it.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“Love is longer than time.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“I shrug. I do not want to live, but for the sake of my family and my friends, I am trying to want to.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“All the things people give us that we do not know we need until we have them.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“He reaches out to touch me. I recoil, not from him, but from what he is offering. This tenderness I want but do not know how to receive.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“When I am in it, love can make me believe anything.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“I tell my mother he’s not boring. You like him, she says. She is surprised because I never like anyone. I do, I say.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“You don’t know the names of my pains, I say. I’ll learn, he says.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“when he loved me, everything in my life got better.”
― Amy Lin, Here After