If He Had Been With Me Quotes

“On what day did you last have your period, Autumn?”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“All the time that became known in my mind as Before.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Isn't that what all the children's books and movies are always about? How even if the task seems impossible or you're too small or you don't have the right kind of whatever, you're still supposed to try? Until you get to high school and suddenly you're supposed to choose a safe path. A path that won't take you too far from home. A path that isn't too risky. A path that has health insurance and a 401 (k).”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Look, all your reasons are really stupid,” I say. “People in relationships need each other like I need you. I know it’s exhausting taking care of me, and I’m sorry. I can try to give you a break, and we can use this summer to get back on track. I really think this is just a rough patch.” Jamie shakes his head. I finally turn and look at him. He’s looking at his hands again. “So that’s it? You’re not even going to try? After all this time together?” “I can’t do it anymore, Autumn.” “You said you would love me forever.” I’m not going to let him off easy. “I do love you, just not that way anymore,” Jamie says. “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 think we’re supposed to experience as much beauty as we can.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“This is friendship, and it is love, but I already know what they have not learned yet; how dangerous friendship is, how damaging love can be.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“His mind is blank. He feels nothing, he thinks nothing; he exists, perfect and unscathed.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I’ll wait for Finny to call me first. The afternoon passes.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I think it’s because when we’re not looking at our watches, we’re looking at the light fading in the sky. The anticipation never escapes our perception.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Are you sad?" he says.
"Well, yeah."
"What is making you sad?"
"I don't know," I say.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“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

“I can’t do this anymore.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“It was another momen when one of us could have said something, could have given us time, but neither of us did. We looked at each other until I couldn't bear it anymore.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“We are laughing, and I look around and I cannot believe that only a few years ago, I did not know a single one of them.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I love him in the way I cannot define, as if my love were an organ within my body I could not live without yet could not pick out of an anatomy book.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“You just see things differently and that’s okay, because I like you weird. You’re my weird, morbid pretty girl.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Everyone always says you never get over your first love.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Sometimes I am disappointed with love. I thought that when you were in love, it would always be right there, staring you in the face, reminding you every moment that you love this person. It seems that it isn't always like that.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“In the mirror, I see the girl I could have been if I tried out for cheerleadering. I see what I would have looked like if I was the sort of girl who could turn a cartwheel and have more friends than favorite books. Every dress is another girl who is not me.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“But there is a difference between knowing something and feeling it. I've known that he wasn't my Finny anymore, but now he is on the other shore, seperated from me by an ocean I am afraid to cross, and I can feel it.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“My tiara continues its reign as a permanent fixture on my head. Before long, no one asks me about it anymore.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Sometimes we have to let go of the past in order to embrace the future.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Grief is the price we pay for loving someone deeply.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Sometimes the most painful goodbyes are the ones we never expected to say.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Time doesn't heal all wounds; it simply makes them easier to bear.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“In the end, we must learn to forgive ourselves for the mistakes we've made.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“the face, reminding you every moment that you love this person. It seems that it isn’t always like that.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I think it’s just to truly love somebody before we die,” Brooke says.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“You have leaves in your hair,” Finny says. “And in your tiara. And everywhere.” I raise my hand and run my fingers through my hair, and he does not move. The sun is gone now, and the evening shifts around us as cars’ headlights throw their light at us and pass on. I see his handsome face and his half smile and the golden lock of hair hanging in his face. I love you, Finny, I think.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“We're going to get ice cream,' Finny says.
'I'm being kidnapped,' I say.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me