Beverly Quotes

“I think love is in the little things. Like… I don’t know. Like making sure the other person gets home safe. Like tying someone’s shoelaces when they’re too tired to do it themselves. Or knowing which songs to skip when you’re in a bad mood. Or always letting them have the last bite, even if you really want it. Love is pulling the blankets over someone in the middle of the night. Looking at them during the best part of a movie, just to see if they’re smiling. Memorizing their order at every fast-food place. Saying ‘text me when you get home,’ and actually staying up until they do. Sitting on the bathroom floor with them when they’re sick, even if they tell you to leave.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Love is a series of choices, a commitment that’s renewed every second of the day. In theory, people are capable of loving multiple times throughout their lifetime, experiencing different kinds of love with different people, each one distinct in its own way. In reality, some people leave such an imprint that the concept of love itself begins to change. Some people enter our lives not simply to be loved, but to change the way we understand love.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Grief is a quiet, shapeless thing. It loops and dips, showing up on birthdays, in grocery store aisles, in the middle of songs you didn’t ask to hear. It lingers in the pauses—in the laughter that comes too late, in the quiet moments where you realize, again and again, that they’re still gone. But I guess, at the end of the day, it’s just proof that your heart has loved.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Sometimes”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Missing her doesn’t mean you’re broken. It just means you cared.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Silence can be more devastating than any argument. Did you know that? It holds a power to break hearts, to create distance where there should be connection.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Blake was watching me like I was both a hurricane and the shelter from it.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“You heard me,” I said. “You want my forgiveness? Beg for it.” He pushed himself up from his seat and dropped to his knees, right there in the empty theater.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“My point is, we’re all just kids. Just taller, slightly more tired children. The sooner you come to terms with that, the easier it’ll be to breathe through all of this. Life isn’t about getting it right. It’s about figuring out how to fake it well enough to survive.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Riley was also very much not into men—something that, in a place like this, probably made her the smartest person here.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“It’s funny how time moves in waves. Some months drag on endlessly, stretching out like they never want to end, while others rush by so quickly you barely notice them.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Being different isn’t the problem. The problem is trying to change yourself to be like everyone else. To make yourself smaller so you can squeeze into a box that wasn’t made for you. And even then, when you manage to force yourself in, they say that you don’t quite fit in it.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“But words didn’t mean much when you’d spent your whole life being failed by them.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“You can be independent and still have feelings. It doesn’t make you weak.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Silence can be more devastating than any argument.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“You should not let anger take root in your heart. Anger…” she paused, her voice softening, “poisons your body. It makes you sick in ways you can’t see.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Blake. The name meant nothing to me then, but it would come to mean everything.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“He did not arrive like sunlight spilling through an open window, warm and bright and gentle. He arrived like twilight—slow and certain, settling into every corner of me before I realized I had already let him in. I would later come to recognize that moment as the beginning of change, of heartache, of something inevitable and unstoppable. I would come to realize, in the months and years that followed, that this was the beginning of everything.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Maybe normal is just a bunch of expectations that we’ve all collectively agreed on without ever questioning whether we really have to follow them.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“My brain knows better, but my heart’s still an idiot.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“Did he see me in the corner of his eye, flickering there like a dream too stubborn to fade? Did he ever feel my presence the way I felt his absence? Did he ever turn his head, just for a moment, convinced I was still there?”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“How do you tell someone you don’t love them—not because they are unworthy of love or haven’t tried hard enough, but because someone else has already taken that place in your heart? How do you shape something so cruel into words that won’t leave scars behind?”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly

“And what truth is that?” That I feel like I’m drowning. That my heart aches in a way that has become too familiar. That your presence feels like both salvation and destruction.”
― Laura J. Robert, Beverly