Down from the Clouds Quotes

“Flies can be sitting in a garden and completely ignore the beautiful flowers around them. Instead they'll go right for the rotting banana peel or piece of trash. Bees, on the other hand, could be sitting in a room full of trash and find the tiniest speck of fruit or honey to land on. Don't be a fly. Become a bee and stay a bee. Look for the good in every circumstance, even the most horrible and disgusting places. There's always some honey to land on.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“No relationship is perfect, but if you soften up and allow yourselves to mold into one person, instead of two separate people sharing a home, you will find it much easier and more beautiful.
Be one and let no one tear you apart.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“Be a giver. Not because you want something out of it. Because it's who you are.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“Sometimes giving means opening up and letting other know you. Sometimes the best thing you can give someone is yourself. The real you. All of you.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“A person can want love all they want, but if they don't figure out who they are and learn to love their own self first, they'll never stay in love.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“Sometimes when you build walls you don't realize that other people can see through them. It's yourself you've harmed because you can't see out.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“She was my person. My one person.We were growing into each other. Changing. Morphing into one soul. And I loved every second of it.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“When most boys dreamed of being a superhero, I dreamed of you.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“Romance was different in her world. In our world. She believed it lived all around us. In the trees, the blue sky hiding behind rain clouds, snow flakes clinging to windshields, squirrels hiding their food, blades of grass catching drops from a misty morning, and in every person to walk the earth. Ella loved to sit on city benches and make up stories about passing strangers. Since meeting her my entire world changed. I always turned life into strands of color on an empty canvas. People blurred by like flashes of light. Just blurs. Then Ella walked into my life and everything slowed down. The blurs of color became people with stories. People with hearts. People. Like me.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“You can't move on until you let go of the past.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“Sometimes life is fantastical, and other times you have to find fantastic inside of the boring parts and yes, even the pain.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“You have shown me, along with that man over there, that life and love aren't as far apart as we think. They go hand-in-hand, like you and me. You can't have one without the other. Everything around us, inside of us, is love. It's in the birds and the rivers, the newborn baby whimpers, and yes, the passionate kisses we share. Life is a package wrapped up in love. To experience love, we have to open it. Carefully. And cherish every gift we're given.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“Sometimes we benefit more from letting go than we do from frantically looking for an escape.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“Sometimes giving means opening up and letting others know you. Sometimes the best thing you can give someone is yourself. The real you. All of you.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“When most boys were making fun of girls who hit puberty, I was sitting on the swings wondering if I already knew you and if not, when would I?”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“Ella, have you ever thought that maybe it could be just as romantic to fall in love again after something so tragic?” - Gavin”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds