A Pack for Autumn Quotes

“Grief is the price we pay for love, and at some point along the way, it started feeling beautiful instead of ugly, like there’s something sacred in the midst of the agonizing pain.”
― Emilia Emerson, A Pack for Autumn

“But maybe that’s the point. We won’t ever feel quite ready to risk ourselves for love, and we should do it, anyway.”

“So you see, they ruined me. How am I supposed to go on living knowing there’s love like that out there? How can I settle for anything less?”

“You don’t,” I said fiercely. “You don’t ever settle. One day, you will feel love like that again, and then you’ll know.”

“You will tell us the next time you feel it coming on, and we will do whatever the fuck we can to make it easier for you, except for leaving you alone.”

“Oh, I had completely forgotten about that. Years ago, Lars scented an omega and became absolutely obsessed with her. It’s one of the reasons he’s barely dated—he was waiting for her.”

"I was down to my last sweatshirt, and I already had plans to buy more because over my dead body would my Omega return any of my clothing"

"Won't apologize for feeling possessive of you when you're my everything, baby"

"I would do whatever olive needed and enjoy every fucking moment"

“I call them my dark days. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the timing—they come up out of the blue, sometimes lasting for a day or two, and other times up to a week.”
“I can feel it coming on. It’s like… it’s like being out in the middle of a still ocean and then, out of nowhere, a wave starts to build. There’s nothing you can do, no place you can go to hide. All you can do is brace yourself as it crashes down. The sadness is so overwhelming it’s like I’m drenched and gasping for air. No matter what I do, how hard I try, I can’t get dry or warm. Even though I know this has happened before, and all those times I somehow made it out of the storm, in that moment, it feels like forever.”
“Eventually, it passes,” I continued. “And you should be happy, and to some degree, you are. But then you walk through your house and see the mess you’ve made and the bridges you’ve burned in your relationships, and it convinces you that this is all your life will ever be. You’re too much of a burden to those around you, and you wouldn’t want to subject them to the darkness anyway.”
“It’s a good thing I’m not afraid of the dark,” Easton said.”
― Emilia Emerson, A Pack for Autumn

“Grief is the price we pay for love,”
― Emilia Emerson, A Pack for Autumn

“I used to think grief was the worst thing in the world. And it is, at least in the beginning. But now, five years out, I’ve befriended my grief. It connects me to the two people I loved most in the world. It’s all the memories I had with them, how they made me feel so important, even as a little kid. Grief is the price we pay for love, and at some point along the way, it started feeling beautiful instead of ugly, like there’s something sacred in the midst of the agonizing pain.”
― Emilia Emerson, A Pack for Autumn

“An expression came over him that could only be described as smug. He turned back to the cards and lifted a decisive paw up to Option B. Moonlight Restoration.”
― Emilia Emerson, A Pack for Autumn