If This Is Love Quotes

“Be free. I know this hurts, baby. It hurts so much. Be everything you were meant to be.”
― Jewel E. Ann, If This Is Love

“Life isn’t fair, Indie girl. But as long as you’re alive, it’s really fucking beautiful. As long as you’re alive, there’s a reason to open my eyes, stand up, and breathe in and out.”
― Jewel E. Ann, If This Is Love

“You’ll know where you are when you get there not because you know where you’ve been. You’ll know it because it’s where you’re supposed to be. It will be a feeling of belonging that can’t be explained. It’s just a feeling you’ll know. And all you have to do is keep following that feeling, and you’ll be fine.”
― Jewel E. Ann, If This Is Love

“Love … it’s every possible emotion stuffed into the heart—stretching, wriggling, bubbling until you reach that thin line separating euphoria and complete despair. I feel both in equal parts. This kind of love can’t exist without the promise of pain.”
― Jewel E. Ann, If This Is Love

“If this is love, why is it wrong? If this is love, why can’t we be together? If this is love, why does it hurt my heart so much? If this is love … I don’t want to live without it. Without him.”
― Jewel E. Ann, If This Is Love

“Turning, I head toward the stairs, but before I round the corner, I have to speak my truth. “I love your touch. I’ve always loved your touch, Milo. For different reasons. You’ve touched me in ways I’m sure you can’t imagine, maybe in ways you never intended. Your arms absorbed the grief I felt after Ruthie died. Your fingers have wiped so many tears from my face. Each swipe is like a salve to my soul, healing it with something as simple as a touch. And when your hand pressed against my cheek and down my leg in the grass by the pond…” I glance over my shoulder, resting my chin on it without fully lifting my gaze to him “…it made me feel beautiful. For that fleeting moment, I thought maybe you felt something for me. Something more than duty. Something more than loyalty. More than sympathy. Then you were gone. But your touch is still on my skin. I wonder if a day will come when I don’t feel your touch?” I laugh a little, and it’s a pain in the pit of my stomach. “I hope so because it hurts.”
― Jewel E. Ann, If This Is Love

“Indie girl … I’m gonna kiss you. And it’s not gonna change anything, but it’s gonna mean everything. Okay?”
― Jewel E. Ann, If This Is Love

“It’s not my first kiss or my second kiss. I don’t know how many times I’ve been kissed, but I know this … with this one kiss, Milo resurrects the parts of my heart that died when Ruthie left this world. He may never say the words, but I feel loved. I feel like no matter how far apart we are, part of Milo will always be with me. I will feel him forever.”
― Jewel E. Ann, If This Is Love

“Milo makes everything feel like nothing and no one before him was real.”
― Jewel E. Ann, If This Is Love

“Sometimes, happiness is fleeting. But I can now say that when I die, I’ll have known that feeling. I’ll remember how it felt to be home, if only for a few breaths. I’ll remember it forever; I’ll remember you forever.”
― Jewel E. Ann, If This Is Love