Steph L > Steph's Quotes

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“Our souls were tied a long time ago, I think. We’re just finally admitting it to each other.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out on a Limb

“You are my soul’s purpose, Win. To know you, to love you, to build a family with you, to spend every day taking care of you, to watch you shine and get all the good things you deserve out of this life.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out on a Limb

“It’s so much easier to communicate insecurities when you don’t need to communicate them at all. Isn’t that all we ever want? To be seen and heard? Validated, even when we’re not able to ask for it.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out on a Limb

“I love you, Win. I love you so much it makes me feel like I’ve hated everything else in my life up until now. Nothing compares to what I feel for you. Not even close.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out on a Limb

“Perhaps that’s all Bo and I are. Two people leaving behind the worst, looking forward to the good to come.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out on a Limb

“It’s horribly cliché, but his smile is beaming—far brighter than the sun. I feel myself bloom with it, as if it’s my own personal version of photosynthesis.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out on a Limb

“It's like there's this idea that you have to earn your label through suffering. And then you have to prove it with who you date, how you dress, how other people perceive you.”
― Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

“It feels bigger than I want it to be. Do I really have to announce this? Can't I just feel something and live inside it while it's happening and not analyze it to death?”
― Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

“How do I know it’s not a fluke? What if I only ever fall for one girl?” “Then you’re bi.” She pats my arm. “What if I’m talking myself into it?” “Not a thing—” “Okay, but what if the girl I like is kind of—I don’t know—boyish?” “Is she a boy?” Edith asks. “No.” “Sounds pretty bi.”
― Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

“I want you, Elsie. All the time. I think of you. All. The. Fucking. Time. I’m distracted. I’m shit at work. And my first instinct, the very first time I saw you, was to run away. Because I knew that if we’d start doing this, we would never stop. And that’s exactly how it is. There is no universe in which I’m going to let you go. I want to be with you, on you, every second of every day. I think – I dream of crazy things. I want you to marry me tomorrow so you can go on my health insurance. I want to lock you in my room for a couple of weeks. I want to buy groceries based on what you like. I want to play it cool, like I’m attracted to you and not obsessed out of my mind, but that’s not where I’m at. Not at all. And I need you to keep us in check. I need you to pace us, because wherever it is that we’re going… I’m here. I’m already right here.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Or makes you resent your pathological inability to set boundaries, one or the two.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“Elsie, it’s the bare minimum. The bar’s so low, you could pick it up and beat him with it.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“I like to see you. When you’re not trying to be someone else.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“Bold of you to assume that the real me is my best hand.”
“Foolish of you to think it isn’t.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“Let me tell you something about me: I am extremely picky about people. Most of them, I don't particularly like. I have very high standards for the ones I let into my life these days. And you, Will Baxter, are my favorite of all of them.”
― Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

“My headphones were both my therapist and my invisibility cloak.”
― Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

“It’s not every day you decide to change your entire life.”
― Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

“You and me in one year, Fern Brookbanks. Don't let me down.”
― Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

“It's not selfish to want something for yourself. It's human.”
― Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

“Will tells me how lucky he is to have met his soulmate eleven years ago, and even luckier to have found me again. He tells me I'm his best friend. He tells me he never thought it was possible to be as happy as he is now, with me. He tells me I'm the bravest person he knows. He tells me he loves my loyalty and my playlists and my nose. He tells me he loves me best of all.”
― Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

“You’re not an escape. You’re everything.”
― Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

“We’re not the same people we were at twenty-two. It’s okay to want different things.”
― Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

“He tastes like coffee and maple syrup and coming home after a long day.”
― Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
― Emily McIntire, Beneath the Stars

“Maybe sometimes you have to say goodbye, even when it hurts. Maybe that’s the only way to appreciate the hellos.”
― Emily McIntire, Beneath the Stars

“Parents’ words become their children’s inner voices.”
― Emily McIntire, Beneath the Stars

“Maybe I shouldn’t believe him. After all, it’s easy for someone’s words to be just that. Words.”
― Emily McIntire, Beneath the Stars

“Love is a single soul inhabiting two bodies. —Aristotle”
― Emily McIntire, Beneath the Stars

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
― Emily McIntire, Beneath the Stars