Natalie Ellsworth > Natalie's Quotes

“Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“Where is Aelin.
Where is my wife?”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“I wondered if having faith in yourself was just deciding you could do it - whatever it was and then making yourself follow through.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“I think just because you can't keep something doesn't mean it wasn't worth it. Nothing lasts forever. What matters is what we take with us.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“And loving other people really does turn out, in the end, to be a genuine way of loving yourself.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“Every chance you take is a choice. A choice to decide who you are.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“And I guess there really is something profoundly healing about letting somebody love you.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“You can’t control the world—or other people. You can’t make them love you, either. They will or they won’t, and that’s the truth. But what you can do is decide who you want to be in the face of it all. Do you want to be a person who helps—or hurts? Do you want to be a person who burns with anger—or shines with compassion? Do you want to be hopeful or hopeless? Give up or keep going? Live or die?”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“But you don’t have to be perfect to be lovable.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“I’m saying,” Rachel replies, “that purpose matters more than contentment.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I still have a lot to figure out, but the one thing I know is, wherever you are, that’s where I belong. I’ll never belong anywhere like I belong with you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“It hurts to want it all, so many things that can't coexist within the same life.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“But most of us are too scared to even ask what we want, in case we can't have it.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I love him so much. I love him more than I did yesterday, and I already know tomorrow I'll love him even more, because every piece of him he gives me is another to fall in love with.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I'm on vacation. Vacations always end. It's the very fact that it's finite that makes traveling special. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn't be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spend there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it change you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“It’s fascinating. How so much of love is about who you are with someone.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“It’s not your job to make me happy, okay? You can’t make anyone happy. I’m happy just because you exist, and that’s as much of my happiness as you have control over.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Tomorrow we will love each other a little more, and the next day, and the next day. And even on those days when one or both of us is having a hard time, we’ll be here, where we are completely known, completely accepted, by the person whose every side we love wholeheartedly. I’m here with all the versions of him I’ve met over twelve years of vacations, and even if the point of life isn’t just being happy, right now, I am. Down to the bones.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“There aren't words vast or specific enough to capture the ecstasy and the ache and love and fear I feel just looking at him now.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I still have a lot to figure out, but the one thing I know is, wherever you are, that's where I belong. I'll never belong anywhere like I belong with you. No matter what I'm feeling, I want you next to me. You're home to me, Alex. And I think I'm that for you too.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Tell me it had nothing to do with me. That Sarah didn't end things because of this—this thing between us. That since I've been out of your life, she hasn't been reconsidering everything. Just tell me that, if that's the truth, Alex. Tell me I'm not the reason you're not married with kids right now, and everything else you wanted."
He stares at me, face terse, eyes dark and cloudy.
"Tell me," I beg, and he just stares at me, the silence of the room adding to the buzz inside my skull.
Finally, he shakes his head. "Of course it's because of you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I don't think I knew I was lonely until I met you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves, Dance of Thieves

“ Make a wish, Kazi, one for tomorrow, for the next day, and the next. One will always come true.

Because if I could believe in tomorrow or the next day, maybe that would give the magic time to come true. Or better, maybe by then I wouldn't need the magic at all.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Hear the language that isn’t spoken, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind it.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“What did they do to you, Kazi?” His voice was low, earnest. Even in the dim light, I was able to see the worry in his eyes.
I pretended I didn’t know what he was talking about. “Who did what?”
“Who made you afraid of an open world? An open sky? Was it Venda? Your parents?”
“No one did anything,” I answered quietly.
“Then hold on to me,” he said. “Let me show you the stars.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Kisses by the billions happen every day, even in a lonely world like ours.
But this is a kiss for the ages.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“Joy can do that. It can hurt as much as pain.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War