Better Left Unsent Quotes

“Because the truth always matters the most. Even when it’s hard or painful. Especially when it’s painful.”
― Lia Louis, Better Left Unsent

“It actually feels a bit scary to me, all this world. Pressure to . . . make something of it all. And yet, we’re all sort of stuck. In systems, in routines, in what’s expected of us, all of which ensure we aren’t making something of it all.”
― Lia Louis, Better Left Unsent

“Feeling things is what we’re supposed to do, as a human, but not everyone is always going to sit with something you feel and be comfortable with it. And it’s not up to you to take that discomfort from them, especially not if it means trading in your own truth for it.”
― Lia Louis, Better Left Unsent

“Living is being bruised. Living is feeling everything the heart can. The pain, the ache, the good and bad. You can’t have one without the contrast of the other.”
― Lia Louis, Better Left Unsent

“I spend my life holding myself to everyone else’s standards. Comparing myself to everyone else, what they’re doing, what they’re posting online, what they’re saying at brunches or announcing on Facebook. But what I’m comparing myself to a lot of the time isn’t even real, anyway.” Jack nods thoughtfully. “You never get the full story,” he says.”
― Lia Louis, Better Left Unsent

“Cause life is absurd, though, isn’t it? Mad. And we all waste so much time on things that are not going to mean shit to us when we’re old. Nobody’s ever going to be sitting in a rocking chair at eighty-nine, saying, ‘Jesus, do you know what, I’m so glad I worried about opening the best ISA with the best interest rate.’ ”
― Lia Louis, Better Left Unsent

“You know when something is so true, almost too true, that it’s unbearable to consider? Like it’s… blinding? And you can’t bear to look at it?”
― Lia Louis, Better Left Unsent

“there are the overt heroes. The gentle, kind, oblivious heroes, like Ralph, who hands out our drinks, who places cake on little plates for us, who puts my dodgy meringues in the oven.”
― Lia Louis, Better Left Unsent

“It actually feels a bit scary to me, all this world. Pressure to… make something of it all. And yet, we’re all sort of stuck. In systems, in routines, in what’s expected of us, all of which ensure we aren’t making something of it all.”
― Lia Louis, Better Left Unsent

“One of those people who feel so ‘meant for you’ that you’re convinced the time before you met them was just time spent getting a bit lost on the way to finding each other.”
― Lia Louis, Better Left Unsent