Lost & Found Quotes

“Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“We don't deserve anything, Rowen. We don't deserve punishment, we don't deserve happiness, life owes us nothing. realize that." His voice wasn't gentle anymore; it was as strong as I'd ever heard it. "So we have to take what we want because life sure as shit isn't going to freely hand it over.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“We shouldn't get hung up on the questions we can't answer because life, by definition, is confusing. We're never going to have all the answers. Never. We should focus on the questions we can answer and make peace with the ones we can't.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“We all want to open up to someone, Rowen. The hard part is finding someone we trust enough to open up to. That person we're not afraid to let into the darkest parts of our world.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling. We should spend it finding someone who will help us up!”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“When you open yourself up to people, you let the bad in with the good. I can't promise I won't ever hurt you, Rowen. But it won't be on purpose. I will never hurt you intentionally. I can promise you that.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“Tomorrow morning. Brand new chance. The first day of whatever life you want to have for yourself." Rose called after me, "Wake up wisely.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“We all have secrets, Rowen. Every last person on the planet. And you know what else? We all experience the same kinds of things. We just go through them at different times and to different degrees.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“I bit my cheek and tried not to smile. It didn't matter what I threw at the guy; I couldn't shake that darn sunny attitude of his. Worse of all, I was afraid it might be contagious. "Just so I'm prepared... are all cowboys like you?" I asked, stepping up into Old Bessie.

Jessie stepped between the door and me before I could close it. His body took up almost the entire door frame. "There's no other cowboy like me," he said with a smile.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“Did you know that every time a country song is played, a cute little puppy keels over dead?”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“Why don’t you want to know that I like you, Rowen? Why don’t you want me to tell you I’m so damn attracted to you, I almost don’t trust myself to be alone with you like we are right now? Why don’t you want to know that I care about you so much…?”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“He can take a few pain relievers when he gets back to the ranch. You're not dealing with your wussy city boys, Rowen."

"That's right," I said, rolling my eyes even though he had his back to me. "I forgot you all are invincible gods."

Garth looked over his shoulder, "Nope, we're even better than that." I could see his smile gleam. "We're cowboys.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“If we were to just accept we're not so different from each other, we wouldn't feel so alone.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“You think you deserve this. You think you deserve to be alone and suffer. You’ve convinced yourself you’re so worthless that you’ve gone to the extreme to punish yourself. You think you deserve a life of misery.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“He bent his face into the curve of my neck. “We don’t deserve anything Rowen. We don’t deserve punishment, we don’t deserve happiness, life owes us nothing. Realize that.” His voice wasn’t gentle anymore; it was as strong as I’d ever heard it. “So we have to take what we want because life sure as shit isn’t going to freely hand it over.” He kissed the skin just above my collar bone. “And I want you.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“I've only known you a couple of days. That's not long at all. I don't know you well enough to pretend like I know you and your problems. But I want to know you. I want to know your problems. That is... if you want to know me.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“Cocky much?" I muttered, hanging my arm out the window like Jesse was. I opened my hand and splayed my fingers to feel the wind rushing through them.

"Only when a pretty girl is sitting next to me and trying her hardest to pretend I'm the most irritating thing in the world," he replied, staring at the road and smiling.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“There wasn't a rhyme or reason to the universe and those who occupied it. We were here. Some us for long durations and some of us for not so long, but the one thing we humans could depend on from life was pain.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“When I looked into those eyes of his that saw everything, those eyes that saw me, I knew the fight would be worth it. The struggle to let him in when I wanted to barricade the windows and lower the gates would be a battle I’d never regret fighting.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“Maybe not today. Or tomorrow. But someday," she said. "I'm not going to waste my life longing for the guy-that-almost-was. I'm going to move on and find the guy-to-be.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“I'd been labelled a goth, an emo, a druggie, a loser, and my personal favorite only because it showed just how ignorant people were: a freak.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“Lily gave me a nod and a smile. "I wish I could be more like you. You're so confident in who you are."

I had to look away from her eyes full of admiration. "I don't know who I am, Lily. I'm just really good at pretending.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“The hard part is finding someone we trust enough to open up to. That person we’re not afraid to let into the darkest parts of our world.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“THERE ARE LOW points, and there are low points. This-rattling down an endless stretch of interstate in a Greyhound bus toward the middle of farm-country-nowhere a week after barely graduating high school-was my low point.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“You rub his arm any longer, you're going to wear the skin right off. Go find yourself another cowboy to pet. I need to talk to this one.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“Instead of trying to get to the bottom of why her daughter was floundering through life, she sent me off to ranch boot camp to “prove” myself worthy of art school.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“Don't waste your time trying to be someone else. Just be the best you you can be.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“If I had to watch the rest of the Jesse Walker strip tease, I would moan the alphabet.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“So yeah. Jesse Walker was giving me the silent treatment. I was probably the only person who could claim that honor.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found