If He Had Been With Me Quotes

“wonder what it would be like to be with someone else.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I imagine that suddenly Finny is holding me and telling me it is okay, and he’s saying that you can feel more than one way about a person.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“He remembered that mint chocolate chip is my favorite.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I have a groggy feeling of unreality, as if I am only watching everything that is happening.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“His favorite song was on the radio when we got in and I wasn’t allowed to speak until now.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Stay. I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But, of course, he never does.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“his eyes are green and fringed with impossibly long eyelashes.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Finny?" "Oh Autumn”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I feel what I have always felt when I look at him, and I have never before asked myself what it is exactly. I love him in a way I cannot define, as if my love were an organ within my body that I could not live without yet could not pick out of an anatomy book.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I never tried to be weird, and I hated being seen that way. It was as if I had been born without the ability to understand if the things I was about to say or do were strange, so I was trapped into constantly being myself. Being “pretty” was a poor consolation in my eyes.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“My mother named me Autumn. People say to me “Oh how pretty,” and then the name seems to glide away from them, not grasping all the things that the word should mean to them, shades of red, change, and death.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Finny, my Finny, kissed me. It was horrible. It was strange and
wonderful. It felt like I was watching a meteor shower and did not know if
it meant the stars were falling and the sky was breaking apart.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I don’t remember always being the brave one. I remember being afraid
that he would leave me someday. I never would have left him.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I’ve loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love
didn’t change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have
when I was a child. It grew with every new longing in my body and desire
in my heart until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And
when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Even if she fell
in love again, I think part of her would always be wishing she was still with
him.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“think of my fantasy home where the furniture—tables, chairs, and bed frames—are all piles of books. I wonder if he would nod thoughtfully at that too. Perhaps he would ask me what books mean to me. I would tell him that it means living another life;”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“fringed”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“eyes. This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever. I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“heart”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“It hasn’t snowed for Christmas since then, and every year there has been more and more other things that matter, and it has felt less and less like Christmas.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Nunca param; nunca se perguntam se já têm tudo.”
― Laura Nowlin, Se ele estivesse comigo

“This is the saddest part of any day, when too much time has passed to create happiness while it is still light out. It’s too late. The daylight has been squandered on my immobility.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“No tiara,” he says. “What?” “You’re not wearing a tiara,” he says. He sounds odd, his words slurred together as if he were very tired.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Every morning the flashback came, and every evening I felt stronger again. Each dawn I had hope that this new day would be the one that would set me free, and that I would make it through without having to endure the pain of being chained in grief to the night that would forever separate now from then.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“You still love me,” I say. “You just can’t feel it right now. Sometimes that happens to me, and I just wait and it always comes back. I don’t break up with you. I just give it time.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I love him the most when we fight and I am scared that he will leave me. After we fight, I want so much to be close to him, and the next day I want his hand in mine every minute.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“This is the saddest part of any day, when too much time has passed to create happiness while it is still light out. It’s too late.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I love him because he said I could stare out the window when it’s raining as long as I’m still listening, and because he said Macbeth was a jerk.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I think to myself that he is handsome in that traditional tall-and-dark way. He says he wants to pierce his eyebrow and I’ve been trying to convince him not to.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Why does that make me weird? Just because I think something different from you doesn't make me weird.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me