To Be Honest Quotes

“forgetting is so hard
when remembering is so easy.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“maybe in another lifetime i will find you again and it will be different.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“it's a different kind of grief
when the person you miss is still alive.
when they are just a phone call away.
when you can still text them in and the morning and before you go to sleep at night.
when you can drive 15 minutes to your favorite coffee shop and meet at the park bench for lunch.

isn't it torture?
this choice to keep missing them
and holding on to hope that made
they miss you, too.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“i break my own heart loving you, but no matter how hard i try to leave that part of me behind, i keep looking for you in the people i meet hoping that i’ll find you again someday.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“you won’t heal if you keep touching where it hurts.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“you didn’t know how to see me while you were still trying to find yourself (and that is devastatingly okay).”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“if i've learned anything in this life it's that you should never hold back.

tell them how you feel.

if you like something about someone,
give them the compliment - it may be the nicest thing they've heard in awhile.

say the words before vou run out of time because you are one day closer to too late.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“i hope that forgiving me isn't the hardest thing anyone has to do.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“it's okay if you don't smile when it hurts.

how can you heal if you keep pretending that everything is okay?”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“that's the thing about nostalgia,
it takes you back to a time in your life that
you walked away from,
but it reminds you of all the reasons you
wanted to stay.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“the sad thing about forever is that i believed it could happen to us.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“i’m tired of hurting on the inside and hiding it on the outside. i’m tired of pretending that everything is okay to protect your feelings. i’m tired of fighting to get through the day only to wake up and have to do it all over again. i’m tired of wishing time away when there is still so much i have left to see. i’m tired of losing hope in myself and humanity. i’m tired of having to heal from the damage that other people have caused. i’m tired of being me.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“to the girl I used to be...
we made it to the other side of healing.
we smile again and it's honest.
we let go and it didn't break us.
we laugh until we cry (and it doesn't hurt).
we like who we are becoming.
we learned how to love ourself again.
we found something worth waking up for.
we stayed.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“one day you will wake up and your mornings won't feel as heavy. the birds will sound beautiful again and the sun will rise as it always has, but this time you won't hide your face under the pillow and ask it to leave. you won't skip breakfast (or lunch or dinner) and you'll take a shower, brush your hair and get dressed because today isn't as hard as it was yesterday or the day before. time will pass by faster because you'll stop checking your phone for their name wondering if they miss you, too. then you will turn on music and instead of crying in the middle of the living room floor, you will dance your heart out and call it therapy.

when healing finds you.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“things to remember about healing

everything hurts before it gets better.
you have to leave some things behind.
you are so much stronger than what you fear.
it's okay to be sad and not have the energy to hide it.
you won't heal if you keep touching where it hurts.
don't forget to love the parts of yourself that are still learning.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“love yourself when things are hard, when you
make mistakes, when you give up before trying,
when you don't workout for the second day in a
row, when you lay in bed all day, when all you feel is sadness, when a promise is hard to keep, when you don't know what to say, when you say too much, when you fail, when you don't want to.

love yourself even when you don't feel like it”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“do you want to know the truth?   it’s going to be a hard pill to swallow. accepting that you loved them with all of your heart and it wasn’t enough, but always remember that you deserve so much more than a one sided love story. time will pass slowly in the beginning and you will try to hold on to every piece of them...the sound of their voice, their sweatshirt that you wore to bed at night, the smell of them on your pillow.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“i thought you were my perfect timing. my everything feels too right to be wrong. my if you jump, i jump. my light in the middle of the dark. my hug at the end of a bad day. my i'll love you forever.   you were my everything, but you didn’t know how to let me be yours.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“they will never know how you feel,
if you don't tell them”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“i will plant seeds in all of the places it hurts because flowers help make anything better and spring is just around the corner waiting to show you that hope still lives here.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“my head: i don’t think this is a good idea. my heart: but what if it is?”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“maybe in another lifetime i
will find you again
and it will be different.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“if you start to fall, you can lean in my direction because i promise i'm not going anywhere unless it's with you”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“putting yourself first is never a failure”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“i can’t help but wonder if this version of myself is one that will make them want to stay or leave.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“if i've learned anything in this life it's that you should never hold back. tell them how you feel. if you like something about someone, give them the compliment - it may be the nicest thing they've heard in a while. say the words before you run out of time because you are one day closer to too late.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“and what a beautiful thing it is,
watching you come back to life
after you thought you never could.”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest

“you and i were everything each other needed, but you didn’t know how to see me while you were still trying to find yourself (and that is devastatingly okay).  
when it’s the right person, but the wrong lifetime”
― Nelle Starling, To Be Honest