How to Say I Love You Out Loud Quotes

“It's really hard to say the words I love you when you know you'll likely never hear them back”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“I am so alone, all the time, even when I'm surrounded by people. Sometimes I get really tired of the walls, and I wish I had the strength to just go at them with a sledgehammer.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“I noticed how easily our hands fit together the one time you let me touch you. I noticed that you seemed lonely, really, really lonely, even though I didn’t know why.” His eyelashes flutter as his eyes flash back and forth between mine. “Which is the most ridiculous thing in the world, considering how badly someone wants to spend time with you. Every single day.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Why does loving someone always have to hurt? The risk just seems bigger than the reward.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“... There is a lens through which we view every single other person in this world. With every piece of information we gain about them, the lens is adjusted, ever so slightly, blurring... coloring... changing how we see them.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Phillip's Autistic. He just wants to be left alone, because something about his neurological make-up leaves him unequipped to deal with the sights, sounds, smells, and touches of our human world.
I don’t know how well equipped the rest of us are, but a lot more so than Phillip I suppose.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Fair doesn't mean equal, fair means everyone gets what they need.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Teenage guys are not supposed to be concerned like this. They are supposed to tell fart jokes, and comment on girls' boobs, and not really pay attention when something is bothering a friend. It's really, really difficult when they convince you they can be something else entirely - a human being, one who truly cares, especially when they're less yours and more someone else's.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“You remember getting noticed in the wrong way more than you remember getting noticed in the right way, you start just wanting to blend in. You start not wanting to be noticed at all.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“I can hardly let the fear of my expectations falling short, the idea of people letting me down, dictate how we live around here.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“I could reach these kids, and they reached back. They put a Band-Aid on some type of wound I'd never quite located.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“They might not say it out loud, but they'd still be thinking it. I'd almost rather hear them say it, hear what they really think, than have to wonder what they're saying when I'm not listening.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“My life might never be perfect, but I'm really glad it's mine. I happen to really like my life now, too much to care about what anyone else has to say about it. I like it enough to fight for it.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“It's sort of liberating, doing something so entirely out of character.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Parents are funny creatures.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Fear's more powerful than desire, I guess. I'm no braver know, anyway, so it's silly to think about.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“My life is not a laughing matter.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“All I wanted was to be going on with life as I know it. Everything is changing. And somehow I have ended up on the brink of disaster, one I can't do anything about.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Stress is absorbed through osmosis around here.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“There’s a particular kind of energy radiating from school on the first day, part nervous freshman energy, part rambunctious senior energy, and part look-how-I-reinvented-myself-over-the-summer energy.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud