Never Over Quotes

“In the end, he drew the same conclusion about my songs that I did. They change meaning the second someone claims them. They belong to every person who listens in specific ways I'll never comprehend.
If music is an offering, I'd hold mine out to the world and say, I made this with the best intentions. You can share it with me, if you want, and take a piece of it to keep for good. You can even move it to a different place on the circle and make it into something else, something unrecognizable to my eyes, and that would be an honor.
It would be an honor to see where I end and where music keeps going. It would be an honor to see what happens when other people claim pieces of the art I made. And even when that happens, it won't change this, or what it meant to me when I made it.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“I'm saying people aren't meant to be controlled, and neither is art”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“But I think the point is actually that once you let a song leave you, you're sharing the pain, splitting the burden of it. Somebody else accepts a piece of it, and then you're not in a lonely house anymore.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“I thought you and I decided a long time ago that we could be different than what we were told to be."

"I'm trying," I whisper.

"Then you're already doing more than enough.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“I’m over it,”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“Yes”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“You have to stop measuring yourself up against what you aren't, " I whisper. Knowing it's so much harder than I make it sound. "And you," Liam says softly, while probably thinking the exact thing, "need to admit to yourself what you are.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“Hang on. If everything's in focus now, does that mean I'm your contact lenses?"
Liam rumbles a laugh, turning to face me, one hip to the counter. "You aren't the lenses. You're the baseball." "Something to hurl away from your body at ninety miles per hour?" His eyes flash. "Something that used to belong in your hands.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“But love does not work this way," Liam argues with a near growl. "Wrong, love works in an uncountable number of ways.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“What if taking something seriously is what kills my love for it?"

"Well, now you just sound like my exes," she whispers with a sarcastic smirk.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over