A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)

by Jennifer Hartmann

time is a precious thing. Every minute of it. Our time here is a gift, and love is the prize if we’re lucky enough to find it. The holy grail. Love is what it’s all about.”

“The only thing stronger than fear is our tenacity to overcome it.”

“Your struggles don’t scare me. Your flaws don’t make me want to run the other way. They only make me want to fight with you.”

“Home is something I buried a long time ago,”

“But I buried it inside you. Just in case I ever wanted to go back.”

Every sound she made, every touch to my skin and breath whispered against my lips, brought me back to life, kiss by kiss, and made me wonder why I ever wanted to stay dead in the first place.

Every heartbeat felt perfectly, fatefully aligned.

“They don’t deserve to have their name spoken at all, let alone their middle name, too. It’s a slap in the face to everybody they ruined.”

“Even a tragedy can have a happy ending. Sometimes we just need to write it in ourselves.”

“And then when you experience that worst possible thing, you see it happening again. And again. You see it everywhere, in everyone you get close to. You wonder if that text or phone call is going to be the last one you’ll ever get. You wonder if you’ll ever see that person again when they walk out your front door. You lose touch with the present moment, with all the moments that make us live and thrive and breathe. You’re always in your head, dreading the next moment, and the one after that, when all we should be doing is cherishing the ones we have.”