The Love We Found Quotes

“There are some people you meet and for whatever reason it feels like your bodies vibrate on the same frequency—or maybe it’s your souls.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Love We Found

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark,’ ” Bashir said. “That’s a quote from—” “Warsan Shire,” I finished for him. “ ‘No one puts their children in a boat / unless the water is safer than the land.’ ”
― Jill Santopolo, The Love We Found

“The shared humanity in all of us. The way when you look at details, we can be so incredibly different, but when you take a step back, we’re all essentially the same. You just need that larger view.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Love We Found

“Warsan Shire,” I finished for him. “ ‘No one puts their children in a boat / unless the water is safer than the land.’ ”
― Jill Santopolo, The Love We Found

“I’d had a wound, Gabe, for a decade. You had been my wound. And I needed to be healed, to be free, to live my life without your ghost beside me. It was time.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Love We Found

“How meaningful—how powerful—are our choices? Are our lives fated, or are we guiding our own journeys? Or is it a little of each, taking the current where it serves?”
― Jill Santopolo, The Love We Found

“The secrets he keeps aren’t a reflection of how he feels about you. They’re about controlling how the world sees him. How you see him.” “He likes to control the narrative,” Courtney replied, as if the thought had fully crystallized for the first time.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Love We Found