The Pieces We Leave Behind Quotes

“Do I make you happy?" he asks. "You said you weren't happy there. You seem happy. But I could try harder. I'd do that for you.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“It doesn't have to be serious to matter—for it to be what you need. Things don't mean less just because they're temporary. We leave little pieces of ourselves with every person we meet and in every place we go.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“I scrub and scrub the mud and muck from my legs and finally cry for the first time in a long time, and it's not for Ethan or Ezra or anyone else. It's for me. It's for whatever sense of self I had before that's gone now. For the emptiness inside of me that I don't know how to fill. For this hollow shell of a person who doesn't have a fucking clue who she is and who doesn't want anything. It is me. He's right. I am dead inside.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“You'll live to regret the things you don't say a hell of a lot more than the things you do.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“To all the lost souls. May you continue wandering until you find yourself content and continuously wrapped in love. And if you ever find that you aren't, I hope you look for more.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“Do I make you happy?" he asks. "You said you weren't happy there. You seem happy. But I could try harder. I'd do that for you." "I am happy. You don't have to do anything else. Just…hold me and play for me and embarrass me in public. And break shit with me when I need to, and that's enough. I'm happy.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“No one gets everything they want in life, but we get even fewer of the things we don't even bother asking for.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“Make it a love song.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“You need to be careful taking things in stride, or one day you'll wake up and realize you've much such a habit of giving in that you have no f*cking clue who you are or how to fight for yourself.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind