Pictures of You Quotes

“Boundaries are something you put around yourself. When someone else puts them around you, it's called a prison.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“I know grief. You don’t forget details. It’s the opposite. Details torment you. They swirl through your mind in a relentless, agonizing loop until you think you’ll go mad.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“No. I know grief. You don't forget details. It's the opposite. Details torment you. They swirl through your mind in a relentless, agonizing loop until you think you'll go mad. The phone call you let go to voicemail because you were too busy reading a book. The offhandedness of that last text message. The endless, haunting, unchangeable dance of all that was said and unsaid as life pushes you further from the opportunity you lost to make things right.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“Evie, he had you on a pedestal so high at the start and then pelted you with so many rocks, you couldn’t find a way to clamber down.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“The idea of the half-eaten sandwich almost undoes me. That we could just step out of life one day”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“The idea of the half-eaten sandwich almost undoes me. That we could just step out of life one day, unfinished. Books half read. Wet washing still in the machine. Places unseen. Ambitions”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“That every good thing that happens to me now has this horrible flipside of loss. And she would be so proud of this.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“These are pictures of you, Evie, before your large life closed in. Before it folded in on itself, and then folded in again, over and over, until your dreams ran out of oxygen. Pictures of the woman you could be again.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“I knew exactly how much love my romantic heart was capable of, and the truth was I was scared. Worried I’d meet a boy so magnetic, so utterly charming and charismatic and fascinating and glorious, that he would make a total mess of me.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“Pretend we never met. Promise me, Drew. If we ever meet again, you will pretend you don’t know me.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“It’s that same gurney. Those flashing lights. A body under a sheet. And a soul-deep knowing that, if nothing changes, the body will be mine.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“I’m realizing the extent to which he’s been planting doubt in my mind, convincing me to let everything go, piece by piece, while he replaces the discarded parts of my life with larger and larger pieces of himself.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“Once you’d dragged me out of the shadows, I worked out what I’d been missing. I worried you’d leave me stranded there.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“He reeled you in the way he reeled in everyone: with that deep, inherited cellular knowledge of how to disarm people.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“Boundaries are something you put around yourself,” Bree says quietly. “When someone else puts them around you, it’s called a prison.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“After my coffee, I go to the gym. I’m not going to let a little problem like ending my marriage disrupt my normal routine.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“I’m so overwhelmed by what I’m seeing, I forget to take photos.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“Being around her as a friend is better than not being around her at all, so I’m resigned to it.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“This man is my safe place. He’s my soft place to land. He’s the ocean pontoon, from which I can dive as deeply as I want and always swim back to where it’s secure and warm and protected.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“It was never just one thing. It was microwounds, inflicted over several years, always on top of scars that hadn’t yet healed.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“The dormant adult within me needs to phoenix herself out of the ashes of amnesia and stepparent the hell out of this”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“The endless, haunting, unchangeable dance of all that was said and unsaid as life pushes you further from the opportunity you lost to make things right.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“The day I die, when my life flashes before my eyes,” I tell him, “this scene will be the finale.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“Evie, he had you on a pedestal so high at the start and then pelted you with so many rocks, you couldn't find a way to clamber down. No move you made was safe. It doesn't matter how many letters there are after your name or how strong you are.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“And it's just Evie and me now, standing in the driveway, with the feeling you get when you wave off loved visitors after a beautiful stay. Except it's forever this time.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“Academic praise has always been my love language.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“But there are some moments that are too private for public consumption. And some unspoken conversations that need to stay that way.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“A collision of memories can pound into you, sweeping away in an instant all the ground you gained in the time it took you to systematically forget.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“Footsteps are like fingerprints. Indelible proof of a person, locked in from years of tramping the earth.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You