The Pieces We Try to Forget Quotes

“To the rest of the world, I have to be a rock. Otherwise, they’d all know how close I am to falling apart.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Try to Forget

“We messed up bad, didn’t we?” “I’d fix it if I could.” “It’s okay,” he says. “When the world recycles us and spits us back out, we’ll try again. We’ll do better next time.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Try to Forget

“I see you—I know who you are. You’re rare. You have a fierce and wild spirit that sucks people in and doesn’t let go. You're a literal forest fire,”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Try to Forget

“The future isn’t real,” he says. “That's why. You can’t wake up every day trying to live for a moment in time that doesn’t exist, or you’ll miss everything. You’ll make yourself miserable for no goddamn reason.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Try to Forget

“For the ones who lie awake at three in the morning haunted by ghosts and what-ifs, replaying a set of scenes over and over in their head and dreaming of a life that turned out differently. I hope they're quiet for you tonight.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Try to Forget