Girl Abroad Quotes

“You’ve made mistakes,” he agrees. “That just means you’re doing it right. The living part.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“Americans. Everything is awesome.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“Of course not. I could never hate you.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“When I take stock of this last year”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“He ponders that”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“I’m wholly at peace with my decision. Absolutely confident that for the first time in months”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“My biggest fear when I moved here was that I wouldn’t fit in. Wouldn’t find a home. But I have. You make it home.” Emotion clogs my throat. “You screwed up”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“But I tamp that shit down. I remind myself that if it’s real”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“I’d like to believe”—Mr. Baxley takes off his glasses and pulls a small handkerchief from his breast pocket to wipe them—“in our final moments”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“But who am I”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“You know…before I met you”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“Memory controls us more than we realize.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“in our final moments, we think of the people we love and what we leave behind. That it’s far too late for regrets.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“Don’t spend what little time we have making everyone else happy at your own expense.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“I’ve always had this terror that I’ll run out of time to see it all. That I’m wasting my life. Like I’m being chased.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“For so long, I thought what I wanted were stories of adventure and exploration, but what I needed was to find myself in the quiet moments. To find contentment in myself when I’m alone with my thoughts and there’s nowhere else to hide.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“Why do any of us get together? We’re all looking in other people for something missing in us.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“A man doesn’t get discarded for reasons women often are. He barely gets a finger wag for a scandal that would otherwise brand a woman for life.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“Is he actually saying this? Mere hours after Jack declared the same?”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“Harry Styles”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“Those are the happy accidents, I suppose. The twists of fate that conspire to trouble us, break us, and then fortify us. Make us stronger at the seams.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“I like sitting at home reading on a rainy day. Watching movies on the couch. Dinner with friends. Simple things. Enjoying the company, not the chaos.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“I would have waited,” Jack whispers against my lips. “As long as it took. You were always worth it.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“It’s possible I’m in love with you.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“don’t text anything you wouldn’t want to see screenshotted and on the front page of the papers.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“There’s romance in tragedy, don’t you think? The two are inextricably entwined. What is romance, love, without the threat of imminent ruin? We give our souls to another person when surely the only possible end is sorrow. For one of us at least.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“I wish I could suck you off right here on the dance floor,”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“Don’t spend what little time we have making everyone else happy at your own expense. You’re the only one who will live with your regrets.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“It's a whole terrifying world out there full of ways to get my teeth knocked in.
And I couldn't be more excited.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad

“This is one of those moments. When you're entirely present and aware of the memories you're making. A moment you'll never have a second chance at, so best to squeeze the most from it.”
― Elle Kennedy, Girl Abroad