After Ever Happy (After, #4)

by Anna Todd

I feel like I’m drowning, and it’s hard to keep myself above water, especially when I’m fighting against the current to save him rather than myself.”

I’ve spent months and months fighting against the inevitable, pushing against a current that was much too big to brave alone, and now I’ve been swallowed into it with no lifeboats in sight.

people can only change themselves, no matter how hard you try. They have to want it as bad as you do or there is no hope.

If I can just touch her once, just feel the steady beat of her heart, it will anchor mine and calm me.

I wish I could engrave into my heart his words and the way his voice sounds so frantic—excited even—and take them with me into the past.

I don’t want to have to survive. I want to live.”

“I’m sorry that I couldn’t fix you,”

There were so many things I should have said, could have said, and sure as hell would have said if I had known my days in heaven were numbered.

I used to like the rain;

but now it only reflects back the loneliness inside me.

“ ‘You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.’ ”