Goodnight, Beautiful Quotes

“Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“My belief in God is personal, I do not need to browbeat anyone into agreeing with me, because I believe what I believe and I try to live by it. My belief in God is about trying to be the best person I can be in this life ...”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“I want him to know I love him. I want him to feel that we both tried, but this was way too big for us: we aren't going to survive this. Even if I hadn't done what I did with Mal, almost all the strings of our marriage have been severed; waiting together to say goodbye is the last one. Once it has been cut, only love will remain. And it takes more than love--no matter how fervent, deep and passionate--to keep two people together.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“And because he loves me, he tries to understand me. It is my fear that stops me talking to him. Because even if it is irrational and it isn't what he wants to hear, Keith has loved me for so long, he'd find a way to make what I feel work for us both. I would do the same for him. That's what our love is about.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“But that's the thing about all of this," he says gently but urgently, "we survive. After each known down, each earth shattering blow, we get up again. Even though we walk through hell, and it feels like all we do is walk through hell, we do eventually make it to the otherside. Scarred. Mostly broken. But we survive. And then we start to rebuild ourselves. We're never the same, but we do rebuild ourselves. Because something like this is just another way in which we change. We all have to change.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“It;s all gone. My life is all gone and I can't work out why. I keep looking back over my life...and I can't work out where it all went so wrong. What I did to make this happen.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“São aqueles que mais amamos que nos animam num instante e nos destroem sem se esforçarem.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“As mentiras têm vida. Elas vivem. Depois de as contarmos, temos de cuidar delas, de as alimentar, acarinhar, de lhes dar atenção, fazer companhia... dar amor e afeto, talvez, como qualquer outro ser vivos pelo qual somos responsáveis.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful