Buried Castles Quotes

“You made me happy when I should have been miserable. You were the only person who could reach me, and maybe that scared me. You accepted me – broken and faulty.”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles

“I’d essentially compartmentalized my life so I could be two different people for a while, but it hadn’t worked in the end.”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles

“. I’d known from that first time we’d talked on the steps at my dad’s beach house that she was a good girl, and I’d liked that about her – so much.”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles

“I wanted to scream at him, but then I just felt sad again. He obviously hadn’t cared enough about me to truly let me into his life at all. He’d kept so much from me, and I kind of hated him for that.”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles

“All You Can Do Is Jump”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles

“Even though it had only been two weeks since I’d seen him last, it felt like months, and sometimes I found myself wondering if our brief time together had been real at all. Yeah, it had been real. I had a heart that was cracked in two as a souvenir of just how real it all was.”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles

“Besides, reality is so much better than any fairytale.”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles

“There was a time when I knew what it was like
To live without you, to share your pain
But time moved on, and you came back
Loving me like you’d never left”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles

“Without you, I’m lost, fumbling and falling
Missing so much of who you were
If I could change the past, I’d take it all back
I’d turn back time, I’d take away the pain
I’d make sure I didn’t leave without you”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles

“Emily wasn’t supposed to be someone I thought about months later. She was supposed to be a fun distraction, like all the other nameless and faceless girls I’d hooked up with over the years.”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles

“That had been an all-consuming love that had swept me up in a torrent of emotion that had been unimaginable until I'd experienced it.”
― Monica Alexander, Buried Castles