The Note Quotes

“Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“You were the light when my entire world was dark. You gave me a reason to keep going when all I wanted to do was give up.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“India Lima Yankee”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“You can’t force love. You can’t control how someone else feels. You just have to enjoy it while it lasts and hope the ride doesn’t end.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“I forced myself to keep my eyes open so I could memorize every curve of her face. I wanted the image burned so deeply in my memory that when I closed my eyes to sleep at night, she would be the last thing I saw and the first person on my mind when I woke.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“your mistakes don't define who you are.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“She was gravity. She was the light in the darkest of my days, and her smile ignited a flame inside of me that had gone out a long time ago.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“I got your six.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“Tears, happy tears, fell from my eyes as I held on to the only person in the world that could take away all of my hurting with a simple smile.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“If anyone makes you cry, I will make them cry, okay?”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“You never truly understand what you are missing until you have it in your grasp and push it away.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“When I met her, I saw her as someone else who needed saving but she had saved me. She had given me hope when I had given up on everything in my life.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“Never give up. Things will get hard. No relationship is easy. You have to work through your problems as if tomorrow isn't guaranteed, because it's not. Never go to bed angry and always make sure you say I love you every chance you get.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“You can be a cocky asshole to me. I deal with little pricks like you all of the time. But you leave Jenn the hell alone or the next time you take a piss, it will be through a fucking tube. Do we understand each other?”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“I had never been scared of deployments or of war, but now I was scared to leave. I didn’t want to leave her. When I met her, I saw her as someone else who needed saving but she had saved me. She had given me hope when I had given up on everything in my life.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this world.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“...all my brain could think about was pushing my lips against hers. I wanted to taste them, know how their softness felt against mine...”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“I tried. I hope Jenn understands that I tried. But I couldn’t listen to him talk that way about her. I spun around with my fist cocked back and connected with the left side of Thomas’s face. He was out before his head hit the floor.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“Road trips are fun. Come on. I'll let you control the music. I give you permission to put your hand on my knob." He laughed and I playfully hit him on the arm.

"There is no knob."

"Well, you are pretty good at pushing my buttons too.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“So the drill sergeant says, ‘All you idiots fall out!’ All the soldiers took off and one stayed. So the drill sergeant walks over to the soldier and raises an eyebrow and the soldier says, ‘Sure was a lot of ‘em!”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“It’s not every day your brother-in-law’s sort of girlfriend’s sister marries her ex-boyfriend.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note

“Sometimes bad things happened to good people. Life was nothing more than a series of events with no rhyme or reason.”
― Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note