Elen Chase > Elen's Quotes

“I never understood jealousy, and I have no idea how some people find it attractive; denying freedom to the person you are supposed to love doesn’t really make sense, does it?”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“It’s not a matter of liking or disliking, it’s a matter of manners.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“She’s just another cousin. Prepare yourself because you’re going to hear this a lot. Everybody here is somebody’s cousin.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“​ Why does it hurt so much? Even though you're here. Even though we're close like we've never been before. Why are you still suffering so much, when I am here with you? Why can't I fill the hole we have in our hearts? We will never be whole again, will we? Because we didn't know that we were whole only when we were together. We found out now, now that we will never be together again.”
― Elen Chase, Back in the Rain

“He was way stronger than me. All I could do, for seven years, was run away from the thought that my sister died. There were times I wished I could forget the both of them. I tried to lock them away somewhere in my mind and live normally, ignoring the fact that half of my heart was gone. I was trying to kill what he was trying to keep alive.”
― Elen Chase, Back in the Rain

“Roberto didn’t say a word, but our fingers intertwined. He held my hand tightly and I almost cried as I realized that was the most intimate gesture I had ever shared with another person in my whole life.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“James looked at me with glossy eyes and parted lips, and I just knew I’d die if I didn’t kiss him now. I tried to fight it, I tried to think, analyze and rationalize, but I concluded that all the facts and words and promises in the world didn’t mean shit and all that ever mattered was sharing this, right now, with him.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“For once, the rumors made me into the “victim,” when they could have easily made me into the “whore.” I wondered what makes people decide whether you’re one or the other. Either way, nobody really wants to know the truth.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“One day you look at the world with eyes full of wonder, then suddenly you lose yourself in your thoughts, and I… I find myself wishing you would find your way back through me.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“I loved him. I loved him in a clumsy, ridiculous way, but that was unmistakably love; a feeling I had craved for so long, I’d almost lost hope. It made perfect sense that it was James who gifted it to me.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“But sometimes I wonder if blaming it all on fate isn’t only an excuse. Maybe we say, ‘it was destiny,’ because we’re afraid to admit that we gave up.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars