Eden Butler > Quotes

“I don’t want easy. I want the impossible. I want love so thick, I drown in it; it’s the only thing worth having and, I’m sorry Kona, you’re a nice guy when you’re not acting like an entitled jackass, but I really don’t think you’re capable of being anything more than that.”
― Eden Butler, Thin Love

“I hate you. I hate you so much I hope you get a severe allergic reaction to chocolate and sex.”
― Eden Butler, Chasing Serenity

“The only magic I ever really made was the love I had with you.”
― Eden Butler, Beg

“Kona… do you… do you still love me?”
“Wildcat…” he takes a breath, head shaking. “I never stopped.”
― Eden Butler, Thin Love

“We were kids when we loved each other. We were fire and passion and obsession.”
― Eden Butler, Thin Love

“Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough.”
― Eden Butler, Infinite Us

“This time when you walk away, I won’t let you stay gone. This time, Wildcat, I’ll follow.”
― Eden Butler, Thin Love

“Maybe when you love someone, neither one of you are supposed to be worthy of the other. Maybe that's what your'e supposed to do--spend you life earning that love. Maybe we're supposed to work at being worthy.”
― Eden Butler, Beg

“A good man would tell you to stop writing. A good man would say to you, “No, love, don’t wait for me. Live your life.” A good man would be happy that you were off somewhere in the world doing all the things you deserve. But, Miss Ada, I am no good man. I am, in fact, selfish, very bleeding selfish when it comes to you. Good man or no, I will tell you I believe a life lived without love is one not worthy of living a’tall.”
― Eden Butler, Platform Four

“One more thing. If you ever threaten me again, make sure you’re ready for a fight. I might be a kid, I might even be a trust fund brat, but lady, I’m not a coward. I’m a CPU Legacy with a very bored mother who likes to start shit. I promise you, you don’t wanna mess with either”
― Eden Butler, Thin Love

“You were mine and I never loved anything more. I never wanted anything or anyone like I wanted you. Like I still want you.”
― Eden Butler, Thin Love

“I thought it was love. I thought I’d die from how much I loved you.”
― Eden Butler, Thin Love

“Because when your world has fallen apart around you, it is your friends, your family, that keep you from slipping between the broken crevices.”
― Eden Butler, Catching Serenity

“I know, to the deepest marrow of my bones that I love you, that I want you, that I could not do, not a’tall, without making you mine one day. So call me weak, I don’t bleeding care. Call me greedy, for I am that. I want you now, forever and always.”
― Eden Butler, Platform Four

“Lips that were sweet, words that were poison.”
― Eden Butler, Thin Love

“I slipped into the shop, wanting to curl up and disappear, wanting the world to blow away until there was nothing left. But before I got my wish, Mama came in after me, slamming the door on Dempsey, on all the prying eyes, on all the swirl of hope and despair and want, and I knew that the world would never go away, but would pull me down right along with it.”
― Eden Butler, Infinite Us

“Hope was a dangerous thin. It filled you up. It made you believe in things you might never have but could not give up on.”
― Eden Butler

“Thick love is best. Thick love is…it’s when you know.”
― Eden Butler, Thick Love

“I’m… I’m into you, Wildcat. I’m so into you and I’m not sure what to do about that.”
― Eden Butler, Thin Love

“I can't just walk away and feel nothing. Not when it comes to you.”
― Eden Butler, Thin Love

“I think he’s the scaredest boy ever. You can’t forget that, Sayo. Don’t… don’t forget how stupid boys are. Don’t.” She yawns, snuggling against the pillow. “Don’t let him stay scared.”
― Eden Butler, Catching Serenity

“Jaysus, you must be the most nosey little shite I have ever come across in my bleeding life.”
― Eden Butler, Catching Serenity

“We are never more vulnerable than we are naked because then there is nowhere left to hide.”
― Eden Butler, My Always

“Without love, we are pointless. With it, we are infinite.”
― Eden Butler, Infinite Us

“I like manning the trolley and cooking the bake goods. And I like walking into town before the sun rises because I get to see sunset as it moves over the lake at the edge of town. Just then, all alone, it’s me and my lovely-smelling biscuits and cookies and God in the quiet as He paints brilliant swirls of color across the sky. It's as if all that's beautiful and peaceful and good is filling up my world, and all the ugliness is set aside for a while.”
― Eden Butler, Platform Four

“One day, one second, a million years, we’re never really ready to say goodbye.” “No,”
― Eden Butler, Catching Serenity

“Life did that [...] It made the sweet bitter and turned dreams into dulled hopes.”
― Eden Butler, Offsides

“I wondered if we lose the best parts of ourselves in the mad dash to loosen the shackles of childhood. We were in such a hurry to be free of Willow Heights that we both somehow forgot to take the best parts of who we were with us when we left.”
― Eden Butler, Kneel

“I have not forgotten my promise. I’ll wait for you. I’ll wait a lifetime if I have to.”
― Eden Butler, Platform Four

“The heart has no limits. Its capacity to love goes beyond all human comprehension. Hearts full of love never burst, they just keep taking,”
― Eden Butler, My Always