Love on the Second Read Quotes

“I’m not saying it’s bad to put your heart and soul in everything you do, but you’ve got to leave some for yourself. And you’ve got to leave room for others to fill themselves up with their own hearts and souls. You can’t fix every problem by breaking off pieces of you.”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read

“Love was opening gates, letting in a person apart from oneself, hoping they’d fill the space of her empty rooms, and trusting them not to break her house... for what was the point of love if not showing both the good and bad parts, both the impregnable and vulnerable parts? Once we love someone, we could never really unlove them, could never really take away the rooms in which they inhabit, only dictate the spaces where they were allowed to occupy. There was really no going back once we opened the gates to someone else. They’d have left their marks inside.”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read

“Love was the thing that healed a broken heart”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read

“Love was the thing that healed a broke heart”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read

“So what use is the past then if it'll block us out from a truly happy life? And how much of it must we let go without fundamentally losing ourselves?”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read

“Can't we ever move forward, towards other happy endings, without losing our past?”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read

“Just two nerds standing in the middle of a nerdy joke”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read

“Love is continuing to choose each other even if the feeling isn't there any more, isn't it?”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read

“Are we suckers for wanting to do a job that's likely not going to make us rich?”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read