Even in Paradise Quotes

“I wish for the same thing I've hoped for since the beginning. I wish for a life so brave, so unpredictable, so full of unexpected joys and unforgettable love that no box could possibly contain all my memories.

Such a life won't be perfect. It'll be something better.

It'll be my own paradise.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“This is not something anyone can teach you. Heartbreak you must learn on your own.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“Before that night, I didn't grasp that the shadows that sometimes crossed her face weren't momentary clouds passing in front of the sun. Her deep silences were more than daydreams. And her habit of standing with her arms wrapped around her ribs was a way of holding herself together.

I didn't get there must be balance.
She couldn't hold so much life, light and joy without also containing their opposites.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“For a time, I missed them like winter misses warmth. I could not breathe without her. I could not feel without him.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“I wish for a life so brave, so unpredictable, so full of unexpected joys and unforgettable love that no box could possibly contain all my memories.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“They were perfect. They were flawed. They were scarred and beautiful. They were too familiar with death and clung to life by clinging to one another. The Great Buchanans were only human, after all.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“Even with her red-rimmed eyes she was the reason artists painted portraits.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“I’m sorry,’ I whispered. I didn’t know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“We are solitary creatures that come together in packs so we can survive as a species. We’ll do anything to preserve the social status quo, including omit, deny, and lie. Complete honesty would be detrimental to the survival of the race.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.
It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us, - the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we become.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“The burst of love I felt for her spread through me like blue paint turning red to purple.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was so fleeting.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“So self-assured were they all by nature that it never occurred to me to doubt that their perfection was predetermined by forces I did not understand. They were all royalty. They were all gods. They were all broken.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“I felt part of a world that was so large and so strange I could never understand it, and that was okay. I was happy to give myself up to it.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“Solo col senno di poi siamo in grado di riconoscere, con la facilità con cui troviamo una città su una cartina, i momenti che ci hanno forgiato. I momenti in cui la scelta tra un sì e un no ci ha fatto diventare le persone che siamo.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“For it should be recognized as a natural law that the difficulty of of making decisions about the future is directly proportional to the amount of internal entropy created by love.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“It’s only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us—the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we became.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise