MecKenzie Upton > MecKenzie's Quotes

“I’m a cynic. And a cynic is a romantic who’s too scared to hope.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“You can't force a person to show up, but you can learn a lesson when they don't”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“The joy of having sons is that they worship their mothers. Until one day, suddenly, they don’t. I am not like you, he realizes. We are different. Then, that boy—once small and sweet—begins the long, hard process of separation, until at last he rips the seam. But the holes where mother and son were once knit together remain.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“Martha Ballard is the great-aunt of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. She is also the great-great-grandmother of Mary Hobart, one of the first female physicians in the United States.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“As I rise from the table, it occurs to me that part of what I feel, watching them, is a sense of betrayal. I carried these children into the world, paid their entrance fee with dues rendered upon my own”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist. Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Life buries us. We get heavier and heavier as time goes on and we labor under the layers we’ve collected. Sometimes the layers make us who we are and sometimes they make us someone else entirely.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist,” I whispered. “Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.” His gaze bore into mine and I saw the exact moment he gave up. “Then let it all burn.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“There's something about going on a trip with someone. Seeing how the love exists everywhere, that it's something you carry wherever you go and not just the product of the world it was created in. Going grocery shopping together in a store you've never been to, figuring out what new place you want to eat at, discovering everything together and it all feels different and new except for them. They're the constant. They're the safe space.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“I want to give you everything. I want to give you something that never ends,” he said”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“She’s not the great love of my life.” He looked me in the eye. “You are.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“We must say goodbye, friend. But I’m glad Terry saved you, because you saved me.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“For Frank, Love Beth If the man could hear me, I would tell him this: It was instant, Dad It was instant. No pain The sorrow was all your own. Enough now. I would tell him that. Lives should be measured in intensity. Remember mine For its glory-stretch of furious light and wondrous beauty. The world we love-lived Is earth Is dust Is me, Dad.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“Burn as brightly as the sun if you wish, Aris, but I will not look away.”
― Adalyn Grace, Wisteria

“One day, I promise that I will find you beneath the bend of a wisteria tree. Wait for me just a little longer.”
He would wait until every last star in the sky had faded from existence. He would have told her that, too,”
― Adalyn Grace, Wisteria

“Do not make yourself small. Do not change yourself to suit him. Teach him how to treat you, and remember that you deserve everything this life has to offer.”
― Adalyn Grace, Wisteria

“This is my tapestry. It belongs to you now, with a thread of red for every day that I have loved you.”
― Adalyn Grace, Holly

“When we care about someone, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have to consider not only what they did, but also why they did it. Intent matters.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Maybe not, I say, but I think you do. I'm the only one here offering you unconditional support and love--and I'm not even asking you to choose me. I'm asking you to choose yourself. Because they won't.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“The past is always with you, whether you choose to think about it or not, whether you take responsibility for it or not. You carry the past with you because it transforms you. You can try to bury it and pretend it never happened, but that doesn’t work.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“One thing about caretakers is they are never carefree. Without our cares, we’d just be takers like everyone else.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time