Teenage Love Quotes

“We sat in silence.
We sat in silence, but our hearts were not silent, our souls were not silent, our brains were not silent. So we sat in silence and I had everything to say, but no way to say it, and he had nothing to say, and every way to say it. When he was silent, his silence was loud— the loudest thing in the world.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“The past is entirely changeless. You cannot fix what has happened or alter situations to the outcome of your liking, because that is not life. Life is not always fair, nor courteous. It never has been. So no, you cannot change your past, but you can change yours, and someone else’s, future. Time will mend everything, Brantley Thornton. You just have to consciously choose, every day, even through the hardships and obstructions, to be patient.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“When I looked in his eyes, he gave me permission to absolutely wreck him. Permission to wreck him so that I wouldn’t be suffering alone.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“But mainly, to be human, it is... to be vulnerable. More importantly, to allow yourself to be vulnerable. To engulf yourself in vulnerability and to give yourself permission to drown in it. To be human... is to feel. To be human is to be conscious and aware of the role given to you, aware of what impact you need to make on this world. To be conscious and mindful of what energy you put out into this world, and the energy you allow yourself to receive. To be human is to experience. To make mistakes and learn from them, and make that same mistake again and learn from it once more. It is to obtain compassion and perspective and treat others with kindness, even when you, yourself, have not been treated the same. It is to move on, to detach, to go on with your life, meet new people, and repeat that endless cycle. It is to laugh and fill your body and every inch of your soul with laughter. It is to be around people who you love, who exert love, and who love you.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“He had a way, a strange way, of making the bad days, rain and puddles and tears and all, somehow bright and brimming with joy. I told you Caspian Marks was the sun. I knew in my heart he was.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“He was sunny days and sunshine and rainbows, and I was the rain. Rainy days and cloudy skies and lightning.
He was the sun; beaming and substantially bright, and warmth, as we knew, encompassed him. And I was the rain; my anger could be defined as stormy, and I was a walking rain cloud, full of gloom. My mind was always cloudy, and I found myself always crying and teary-eyed, which was, in my life, symbolizing the rain free-falling from the sky and into my heart. My heart was frozen, and it was so, so cold; as cold as the chilly air. Oh, God. I was the rain.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“Caspian’s world had stopped.
His world came to a halt when he looked at me, I saw it. It was as though he was taking in all of me, all of me that he could, trying to make everything, every moment count as something special.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I was rain, not only to myself, but to Caspian Marks, too.
I wasn’t the kind of gloomy rain that was unwanted and unappreciated, though. Not to him. I was the kind that was necessary when you felt shriveled and dry; in need of something to give you energy and strength to lighten and flourish again. The kind that was like a breath of fresh air. The kind of rain that after, created rainbows. The kind of rain that was crucial—absolutely crucial—in romance movies when the most dramatic kiss of the century was cued to happen.
I was Caspian Mark’s rain. I gave him energy and I revived him. I gave him air to breathe. My coldness reminded him that life was not always sunny or ideal, but would still be good, anyway. The rain, I suppose I was.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“Peaceful silence. Peaceful, satisfying, comfortable silence. The kind of silence that only happened when two souls allowed their minds to go quiet and their hearts to hush and found tranquility in one another.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“He thought about it for a moment and laughed. Laughed this vibrant, spirited laugh that I wanted to hear on a loop for the rest of my days. It was the kind of laugh that you wanted playing from a stereo and having it on full blast while you drove in the car. The kind of laugh you wanted to be reminded of whenever you forgot it, which would be hard to forget, but in the case that you did, an instant reminder was in store. The kind that would never get old, no matter how many times you heard it. The kind of laugh that made your heart want to dance. That was his laugh. What his laugh was to me.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“His remark brought me back to the world. My consciousness soared somewhere I didn’t recognize. I didn’t have any real thoughts and my body felt not all there and... he brought me back to the world.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“Maybe I didn’t think, at that moment, I owed it to myself. Because I didn’t. I didn’t care enough to owe anything to myself. But I did owe it to Caspian Marks. For going out of his way, time and time and again to make sure I lived the rest of my days well and accordingly. I owed it to him.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“He looked like the prime definition of someone who was at peace. At peace within themselves, at peace within the world. Caspian Marks was at peace, and I knew at that moment that he would be all right and would continue to be at peace whenever I left this world. Seeing him like that, right then and there, I think gave me every bit of reassurance I ever needed. Reassurance I wasn’t aware I needed in the first place.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“You know what I loved about life?
The fact that everything really was symbolic. Everything was a reflection of everything. A reflection of someone, a reflection of their inner turmoil and world, a reflection of an environment they live in. A reflection of minds and hearts and souls.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“You need new friends, Caspian. To do that you have to give people chances.”
“I do not need new friends. I have you.”
“You do not have me, Caspian Marks. You have twenty-one days of me, and that is all. Twenty-one days.”
“Twenty-one days of you is better than any amount of days with anyone else.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“You are one of the very scarce souls that are left truly pure- hearted, Caspian Marks. I need you to promise me, to stop depending on me, thriving on our friendship, and detach yourself from me, because I will not allow myself, I will not allow this—what is to come—to corrupt you. Corrupt all that you are and all that you can be.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I wanted to shove him off of me and tell him that he couldn’t love me, that he didn’t know me long enough, and that we were too young and he was too foolish and he didn’t know what he was talking about. He may have not known me long enough, but he knew me better than anyone else. And we may have been too young, but he was wise beyond the ages. And what he said may have been foolish, but he was the least foolish person I knew. And I couldn’t say he didn’t know what he was talking about, because Caspian Marks always knew what he was talking about, and he knew that he loved me.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“He cried and he cried, and his heart beat and leaped and danced and pranced, and for that moment, I thought, my heart is about to run off with his, and I’m not going to stop it. But I did. I stopped it. I grabbed my heart in the palm of my hands and I squeezed it. I squeezed it so hard. So hard so it was crippled enough to stay in place and not have the ability to move and feel every emotion and feeling it wanted to feel. And I cried. I cried and I cried, and my heart beat and leaped and danced and pranced and... I didn’t know what to say or what to do. I didn’t know what to feel and what not to feel.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I live in every word you say.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I am not okay with you attempting to fix a girl who is already broken beyond any sense of repair, Caspian Marks. It is not your job to repair what you have not broken. It is not your job to take time out of your life, your very meaningful life, all to help a girl who has never asked for it. You are always trying to rescue me like some damsel in distress when I do not want to be saved. I refuse to take away from you living your life, when I am already letting mine slip out of my hands, willingly. Let me go, Caspian Marks. You have to let me be.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“You may not mean something in your life, Brantley Thornton, but you certainly mean something in mine. And you may... you may not be the epitome of the perfect teenage girl; the textbook definition of one. The perfect girl who lives a movie-like life and is always happy and all smiles and always makes the right decisions and has no faults. But you are the epitome of my perfect girl, and in my world, what I would consider perfect.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“You may not allow yourself to admit it, Brantley, and your brain may not be able to process it, but your heart knows. Your heart knows.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“When I look in his eyes, I see the stars. I see the stars and how they gleam so bright with so much... purpose. His eyes, Doncia, his eyes... they call for me. They call for me to come home and to find peace in where I belong.” I paused. “Caspian Marks makes me feel at home. He and his star-brimmed, radiant eyes and stardust permeated soul, I think, is my home.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“All of my energy flew back to me at a rapid rate and all I could think about was how, with everything flying back to me at such a speed, my energy, my headache, my nausea... so did my feelings.
So did my feelings for Caspian Marks.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I didn’t care that my world was spinning and felt out of control. All I wanted to make sure of was that his world was intact. I didn’t care about anything at that moment except him.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“Because when you have someone in your life that is more addicting than any drug or substance could ever be, I mean, those drugs and those substances have no actual use anymore. They can’t get you high in the way that that person does. Caspian Marks he... he gave me that high. Nothing in the world I could try was any bit comparable to that.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I am crying because I do not want to lose you, Brantley Thornton. I do not want to lose you. Do you not get that? I don’t, and I can’t. Not in this lifetime, not in the next. Not now, and not ever.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“When I made it home that night, I pulled out my journal—a journal that hadn’t been much in use until Caspian Marks came into my life. I had stuff to write about now. Caspian Marks gave me a life I could write about.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I could sit here and lie and... pretend, too, and say that I share no feelings for you. I could say that... I could say that this... love, or whatever, whatever this is, is not true. But I would be lying to myself, Caspian Marks. And more importantly, I would be lying to you.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“He watched me. He didn’t move, he didn’t flinch, he didn’t try and act like he was watching the stars. And when he got caught, he didn’t even care. He watched me, anyway. And the stars that were in his eyes flowed over to mine and journeyed across my skin and streamed through my veins and made me feel like a star myself.
It was at that moment I knew I’d be okay. That that would be my future in days to come and for eternity. And I was okay with it.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars