Left of Forever Quotes

“One day, when we're very old and gray, one of us will open our eyes to a day that the other won't, but we'll smile knowing how full life has been, knowing how we spent forever. Everything left of it, together”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“If you're lost, I'll find you. I'll give you my body, my heart, and my soul. I'll cherish every bit of yours in return. I'll fight with you. I'll fight for you. I'll love you for everything left of forever, in every lifetime we get.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“I grew up with my great love, so I think maybe my heart took shape around his.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“All I know is that if I found out heaven was real and got there first? I’d hang back in the waiting room and save you a seat.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“His DNA altered mine, and our souls shaped themselves for each other. Everything in my body and being welcomes every part of him”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“If you won't have me back anymore, then I'll find you in the next life. You are the only thing that makes me believe in that. In something bigger than myself. The way I have felt about you has been the only thing that's felt like ... like it can't be contained in one body or lifetime.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“I miss you, too sounds glib. You have been missing from me is more accurate. There's a void where you live in me”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“That boy," she growls. "That man," she corrects herself. "That man is the best sort of good. He's the kind of good that doesn't want to be seen or fussed over with accolades. He's a man of action.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“We have whatever's left of forever, you and me”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“After all, what is bravery if not hope in action?”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“For those who hold onto their indomitable hope. Me too, friends. I bet we make it.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“Wren, I can still taste you in my mustache. I can't think of a single person on the planet to be jealous of right now”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“I don't give a fuck who you've slept with or how many times. I don't give a fuck if you have a boyfriend right this minute. We belong to each other in ways no one else every will.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“I kiss her because she’s kind and clever and so pretty it takes my breath away. She’s mine and I’m hers, and all of my life’s greatest happiness can be traced back to her, so I kiss her because I want to, and forget the rest.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“I'd learn how love could change; how it could grow from friendship into more, into something that felt infinite. Love could be loud and supernova hot, and something soothing and quiet, too.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“For the million and one kisses we've shared, I've never felt like this. I want to be in him and for him to be in me. I want to be Ellis. I want him to be me. I want to be one single body and spirit, and I want him to feel what I feel for him like air in his own lungs”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“He can have whatever he wants from me again. Everything is his.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“I felt happiness. It was just different."
"How?"
She huffs out a frustrated breath. "I guess ... Like feeling the sun shining through a window. It's sunshine and it's there and it's warm, but it's not the same as feeling it on my skin.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“We earned the scars and those tender spots in our stories. They're not things we have to hide or feel embarrassed or awkward about. We deserve to talk about them, no matter how we do that or how we get there.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“intertwining our hands on the middle between us–like otters trying not to drift away.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“I let myself look at him. *Really* look at him. I used to keep a mental tally of the laugh lines that'd deepened around his eyes, secretly excited each time a new one would appear. I don't think he's gained anything new over the last few years, and it makes me unbearably sad. He still looks good, though. Painfully so.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“When we got together and would make out between classes and I was sure that happiness was stuck in my teeth for everyone to see.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“He smiles shyly. "Sorry I couldn't get you to Europe, Byrd, but even if this didn't go the way I hoped, I wanted to give you what I could," he says”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“It terrifies me to think that I might've let this life go by without finding my way back to you. Never again, Wren. I promise. Never again. I'm not letting you go”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“Make plans with me forever, I mean. Hitch your life to mine again and we'll go places. We'll share every plan, every heavy thing together, and all the good stuff, too”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“I disappear into the feel of her lips, the scent of her mixed with all the smells of home, and it's like I've finally come alive under my own skin again. The version of me I was meant to be, misshapen heart finding its matching piece.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“He's mine again and I want everyone to know it. I want him to feel found and chosen by me, as much as I feel by him.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“She closes the distance between us and slides to her knees, laying her hand against my face. I start to cry like a fucking kid again the moment she touches me. I reach up and hold her palm tight to my skin.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“Because when it comes down to it, on a physical level, feeling happy doesn't take priority over surviving," I say. "We're programmed to remember the bad so that we know what to stay away from and how to keep going. That's why the shit that hurts stands out in our minds. That's why holding on to the happy takes work.”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever

“Strands of bulb lights are strung from the ceiling, but more than that, everywhere, dangling from different heights, all different sizes and varying colors, are origami birds”
― Tarah DeWitt, Left of Forever