Kiss Slay Replay Quotes

“Just because it wasn’t forever doesn’t strip it of meaning. It was real. I don’t need to make sense of the ending, to get stuck in the why. I don’t need to keep mourning the lives I will never lead. I can just be grateful for mine. And I can let the rest go. —”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“The only thing that will come from constantly looking back is an inability to move forward.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“I used to assume that adulthood held some secret wisdom, that as we matured, crossing the threshold into the marriage and baby years, we’d magically change into people who craved nothing but a square of dark chocolate, who weren’t intimidated by our taxes, who understood the stock market and mortgage rates and insurance premiums. People who were no longer vulnerable or overwhelmed or afraid. But there’s no such thing as magic, no instantaneous transformation on this side of thirty, only more uncertainty, and shame of that uncertainty.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“But grief and happiness can exist simultaneously. That’s just what it is to be alive.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“I know what it feels like to be stabbed between the eyes, to have my soul sucked out of my body, but I’m not particularly eager to find out what it feels like to be eaten alive.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“What if I was pining after an old version of a love that I could never get back, and it made me blind to any possible future?”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“The question, of course, being: Is home a place or other people? Is it a feeling? Is it happiness? Is it love?”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“I want to live without anticipating the worst, to breathe without fear of the moment I stop, to exist in time without worry of wasting it. I want my past. I want my present. I want my future. My time. My life. This life. This world. This shitty, messed-up, amazing, beautiful world.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“future. My time. My life. This life. This world. This shitty, messed-up, amazing, beautiful world.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“I always figured that love was enough, the world’s strongest adhesive, that it could hold everything together no matter what. But life is too heavy. The bonds will break under the weight if not supported.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“But happiness isn’t something you stumble into by chance, or a level you unlock and ride off into the sunset.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“Because the time together always goes by too fast and the time apart too slowly.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“There’s the distance between us. Miles. Years. Experiences. Heartbreaks. Resentments. Mistakes. But it’s not too far. It’s not too far to cross that distance. Or to just accept it. To forgive it. Learn to live with it. The only world I want to be in is a world with them in it. Even if it gets messy and so sad and sometimes lonely and always imperfect. I want the world as it is, my life as it is. My life. I want it. I don’t want to go.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“fell in love and surrendered to its current, and it took me someplace else, and I opened my eyes one day not knowing where I was or who I was or how I got there. And it terrified me. It still terrifies me. Am I doomed to repeat the same patterns of behavior? Delude myself into thinking that love will save me, only to end up right back where I am now, staring into a void, waiting for it to say my name?”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“You hold it against me, you blame me. And yeah, the timing was awful, and yeah, maybe I should have said something sooner, but I just, I didn’t know how. It’s like today. I wanted to find a way to save it, I did, but, but why does it all fall on me?”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“Maybe it’s a me thing—this secret, selfish, nefarious impulse to sully the beauty in the world that I can’t have for myself, that I can’t fully enjoy in the moment because I’m too busy anticipating it slipping through my fingers.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“The good thing about a broken heart is it makes you feel more alive. The bad thing about a broken heart is it makes you feel more alive.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay

“Because love cannot be kept, cannot be sustained. It cycles through. With the euphoric highs follow the brutal lows.”
― Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay