The Cost of Forgetting You Quotes

“At what point do you stop hoping your parents will change and finally start to accept them for who they are? People who are equally as damaged as you, and doubly as set in their ways.
At what point are you justified in saying that their love isn’t worth having if you must cut yourself open and bleed in order to keep it?”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“And if ever there comes a day when Delilah cannot remember, when she looks to me for help, for hope, and asks me who she is, I’ll tell her this. You are my love. My life. My heart. You are my oldest friend and the person who knows me best. You are remarkable. And you are mine.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“I’ll be with you till the very end, Delilah. And if ever there’s a time where you can’t remember, I’ll do it for both of us. I promise.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“Love is a lot of things. It’s reckless when you want to be careful. Gentle when the world is anything but.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“At what point do you stop hoping your parents will change and finally start to accept them for who they are? People who are equally as damaged as you, and doubly as set in their ways. At what point are you justified in saying that their love isn’t worth having if you must cut yourself open and bleed in order to keep it?”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“She makes herself smaller to leave room for everything—and everyone—who dares to be bigger than her. I worry one day this world will swallow her whole.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“But I’m trying. There are things I don’t know how to let go of. How to forget.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“I want you to believe them. I want to embed myself in your heart, become as vital to you as breathing. I’m tired of pretending like I haven’t thought about you every day since you left. To pretend I haven’t imagined you exactly like this.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“You can’t spend your whole life seeing people as their worst mistake. I doubt you’d want to be judged by yours.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“I absent-mindedly reach up to smooth the skin between my eyebrows, knowing my skin will tell a very different story when the time comes. I’ve spent my whole life worrying about something.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“Another deep breath. This time when I exhale, I send all my expectations out with the air. If you don’t want anything, it can’t be taken away. Without hope, there’s no disappointment.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“Another deep breath. This time when I exhale, I send all my expectations out with the air. If you don’t want anything, it can’t be taken away. Without hope, there’s no”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“I feel so incredibly small. I feel like somebody’s child, and I can’t remember the last time I felt that way.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You