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The island might be a reminder of my most painful memories, but it also housed all my very best ones, too. And unlike other people in my life, I wasn’t willing to lose the good memories just to keep out reminders of the bad.
Some wounds were too deep. Some history too painful. You could forgive, but you’d never forget.
“These scars don’t make me ugly, Ford. They tell the world I’m a survivor.”
“Grief has a way of warping the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Him thinking those things, it doesn’t have anything to do with you. It’s because he blames himself.”
life is shades of gray. You can be upset and hurt and still love him.”
But it was an innocent, naïve love. That didn’t make it less, it simply made it part of my journey—just not the fire that would consume my entire path.
We’d healed. But in a way where some of the bones hadn’t set right. We’d needed to rebreak them to ensure we walked without a limp, without pain.
“Just because it’s hard, doesn’t mean it’s not worth it. Sometimes, the greater the difficulty, the sweeter the reward.”
So often, we didn’t realize that the rarest and most beautiful gifts were already in our possession. Sometimes, we didn’t discover that truth before it was too late.
if I genuinely wanted to live my life to the fullest, I had to let myself love the person my heart wanted above all others. Even if it was the scariest jump I’d ever make.
