Savor It Quotes

“You once told me you thought you were a lot of nots. I want you to know that to me, you're everything. I love that you're full of terrible puns that you're not afraid to follow with profound wisdom. You're all the shapes made perfectly to hold me, and you're all my favorite colors.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“Sometimes courage is just quietly trying again.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“But you know what the bravest thing of all is? The most extraordinary thing? To live by your own standards and no one else's. To be happy by your own measure.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“Don't worry so much about the clouds that you miss the flowers at your feet.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I would do it all again for the privilege of loving him, of being loved by him. He didn't fix me, and I didn't fix him, but we loved each other wholly.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“Life’s short. Go to the library. Live a million different stories and see a million different places in one. You might not have control over some things, but you can always foster your imagination.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Savor It

“Did you know g-geese bond for life?! D-d-did you know th-they can get—can get depression?! . . . And I just LEFT," she says.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“It's been a privilege to fall in love with you, Sage.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“So. So what if you happen to meet the love of your life in some tiny town, and so what if you get stuck there? If it’s a life that’s filled with joy, by your standards? I can’t imagine a bigger, more fulfilling feeling.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Savor It

“Nothing's for certain, except that I certainly fucking love you.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“Good boy," she tells me. And I don't think studying together will ever be a problem again. She gets up and starts sliding our books into her bag, and I follow suit. I can't wipe off the dumb look I know I have on my face, and if I had a tail, I know it'd be wagging.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I fell in love with you, and with this place, and it should've been enough to make me stay. I should've been able to show Indy that, too, but I was scared to fuck it up again. We're better than how you found us, but we're still working on ourselves.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“The sky breaks open the moment we hit the porch. Great, heavy raindrops that sparkle like a shower of light in the sun. We look at one another in surprise, then break into a run. We screech and laugh our way across the field, only stopping to taste the rain off each other's skin.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“Fuck, he's perfect. No, it's worse because he's imperfect and honest about it and he's deserving of so much love.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“This is me trying, and I'm still this much of a mess.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“And, okay, this is also a little bit for James Acaster on that episode of The Great British Bake Off when he said the most relatable thing every creative spirit has experienced: “Started making it, had a breakdown. Bon appétit!”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I can move to be with you, because I'm doing it for me, too. Me, and Indy, and this menagerie of pets.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“The bird and his girl collide in the distance, Indy falling to her knees with an unrepentant cry.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I know we were supposed to accept the impermanence of this thing with you and me, and enjoy it in the meantime, but I just keep digging in, and now I'm drowning in you, Sage.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I just have a lot more nice things I'd like to say to you right now, and I think I'd like your mouth full while I say them." He smiled full-out at the look in my eyes. "Then you'll have to listen without brushing me off.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I'm sorry," I tell him again. "My brain and I are fighting, I think." I offer him an apologetic shrug.
"Yeah? What's that bitch trying to say?" he replies. It's playful and indulgent of him to meet me inside my metaphor, and I can't help a grateful smile.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“Let me go down on you again," I beg. "I'll give you anything you want. I'll memorize that book if you want.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“No, sweetheart." I push a lock of her hair back behind one of her ears before I can consider it or consider why I'm comfortable doing it. "I'd wager he just knew you were too far about him, so he tried to bring you to his level. By making things that light you up seem dim to him.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“Being forced to grow up too quickly into my emotional maturity means I surely missed developing some of it somewhere, which seems to manifest itself in me forever endeavoring to be important to someone or something. . . I say yes too easily to people for fear of abandonment if I'm not useful.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I remind myself that it’s absurd, that life is not a meritocracy. Just because you do everything right, even if you know you deserve it, doesn’t mean that it will all be perfect in the end. Just because you accomplish a dream doesn’t mean it’ll make you happy forever. Sometimes wonderful people get sick, and sometimes people who were terrible to you have everything go according to plan. It really is what you do with it, what you take with you when you go to bed at night that counts.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Savor It

“I'm going to take her out on her favorite stretch of water and ask her under a vast, starry sky to be my wife.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I love you so much," I have to say.
"I love you, too. Please bring me home.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“My sweet, beautiful, impossibly kind, and lonely girl.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I find him watching me and ignoring his own—something raw, vulnerable, and searching on his face. It's almost boyish in its hopefulness, and it makes me want to grab fistfuls of the stuff and shout at him, You're amazing, you're amazing, you're so damn incredible! You're bigger and better than anyone and braver, too, and why would you ever let anyone else make you feel like you're less?”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I'm squeezing myself against him now, powerless, I can't help it. Big, stupid smiles on both of our faces.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It