Glass Hearts Quotes

“Happiness isn't something that you plan for. It comes knocking unexpectedly, just like opportunity. And it's up to you to answer the door and invite it inside.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“Here's what I think: it's one thing to know that rejection is coming, and it's an entirely different thing when it arrives.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“I love you back - in a big and epic way.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“And, you know, when all is said and done, it really is better to wind up feeling scared and stupid than not feel anything at all.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“But, here's a sad fact: perfect isn't meant to be. When you aim for perfect, you just wind up ruined.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“Life is unpredictable and it doesn't follow a map.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“Sometimes things don't work out like we plan. Like, maybe life has other things in mind.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“I can assure you that a kiss under the influence does not equal long-lasting romance.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“He looks at you like you're the only person in the room. Like he's trapped underwater and you're an oxygen tank. Like he's in anaphylactic shock and you're an EpiPen.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“I'm being fair, it was the best kiss of my life- a kiss that finds all your seams and pulls them apart, stitch by detail stitch.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“Ellie, I came back early because I was driving everyone around me crazy. When I wasn't texting you or talking to you, I was talking about you, and thinking about you, and wondering about you...you get the idea.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“I guess, sometimes the most inexplicable things end up being the ones that work the best.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“Look, haven't you ever heard that musicians play from the heart? Well, I can't be expected to play in California when my heart's over two thousand miles away.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“That's it. I've had enough of this talking crap. I reach my hands up. I cup his chin and bring his mouth to mine.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“Insecurity is like a net, and I let it catch me.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“Happiness isn’t something that you can plan for.  It comes knocking unexpectedly, just like opportunity.  And it’s up to you to answer the door and invite it inside.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“This is no shy, just-between-friends kiss. This is a kiss unlike any that I've ever had. It's the kiss of a hundred thumping kick drums, a raging earthquake.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“Crushes are for fourteen year olds. Ellie, I would describe what's happening to you as falling.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“Then I wake up. And, it's not the purple- hued light of the house at three in the morning that has woken me, or the sound of Payton stumbling into the bathroom. It's a hand.
A single hand.
So innocuous.
I feel it before my eyes blink open. A slight weight on my hip. A current of electricity running through me, reshaping the air that I breathe. It takes only a second for me to process what it is, to rearrange the spaces in my head around the feel of his fingers on my body.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“If the question is: what's more mortifying than professing your love to a boy and having him turn and walk away from you? The answer is: professing your love to a boy, while standing in front of your friends, parents and a hundred strangers, and having him turn and walk away from you.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“But, here’s a sad fact, perfect isn’t meant to be.  When you aim for perfect, you just wind up ruined.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth,” Ben reads. “The iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Autumn Doughton, On an Edge of Glass