Ten Below Zero Quotes

“I don’t need a thousand people to know I existed. I just want someone to know I lived.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“I don't want to merely exist, Parker. I want to live. I want to leave the world with that one sweet moment.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“I so desperately wanted to be his gravity, to hold him on this earth and keep him from leaving me.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“I was naked under his gaze. Skin was just that: skin. But to see your soul stripped, laid bare for the eyes of someone you barely knew-that was terrifying.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“I'm not talking about the scars that separate your skin, Parker. I'm not blind, I can see those. I'm talking about the scars much deeper than that. The scars that exist within you. The ones you actually try to hide.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“Words could bite. When I spoke to strangers, I wanted my words to have fangs.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“Don’t smile, Parker,” Everett said, leaning in to me. “It would look weird on your face.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“Some of us have scars that aren't meant to be seen”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“In here, he said, pushing on the skin above my heart, you're ten below zero. And you're closer to death than I am.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“I don't love anything." - Parker
"I know." - Everett”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“My heart stirred in my chest and I knew, without hesitation, that this man would destroy me. The thought made me breathless.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“I couldn't stop shaking my head. I didn't want this. I didn't want to draw people to me with my broken pieces. I wanted to be left alone among all those pieces, sitting in the middle of them so if people dared to come close, they'd cut themselves on all the pieces to get to me.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“You're ten below. Cold as ice.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“-It’s rude to stare.
-I never claimed to be anything else.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“It hurts, you know. Loving you. It hurts now. But I'd rather suffer through this pain in my final moments than suffer through being alone, from living a life unfilled.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“Is that how you live your life? By people forcing you out of your comfort zone? Why not willingly put yourself in situations that make you uncomfortable?”
“Why would anyone do that?” Our voices were getting louder, taking up space in the Jeep.
“How do you expect to understand anything if you don’t take a step out of your comfort zone, if you don’t embrace the scary?”
“I don’t need to understand anything.”
“Then you’re not alive. You don’t want to feel, you don’t want to connect, you don’t want to exist outside of that big head of yours. I should have told you that you were six feet under instead.”
“We don’t all have to live the way you think we should live.”
“Of course not. But what is living, really? Are you going to spend the next sixty years of your life alone? You’ll die in your sleep and no one will know, no one will care.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“Love, the emotion that should elicit healing, was in fact the most painful emotion of them all. It crept in when you didn’t want it. Made itself at home, terrorizing your hormones with confusion. It made you more susceptible to pain, it weakened your resolve while simultaneously making you frantic with need. And it hurt. Not just mentally, but physically.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“I don't like warm beverages in general. Oh he said, taking a sip of his coffee. We wouldn't want to thaw you out, would we?”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“Are you inlove with me? Not even close.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“JOY CAME ALWAYS AFTER PAIN.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“This,” he said, running his fingers down my dress, “is perception. It’s what my eyes see. But this,” he pressed his hand to the center of my chest, just above the bust line of the dress, “is reality. I much prefer this. This,” he said, pushing again, “this is what my soul sees.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“I don't need a thousand people to know I existed. I just want someone to know I lived.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“Take this wine glass for example. If I had poured milk into it and told you it was wine, would you be upset when you took the first sip, expecting the bite of fermented grapes and getting milk instead?”
“I like milk.”
Everett fought a smile. “I do too. But I also like to know what’s coming. It all boils down to control.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“I am. I’m rude because I don’t conform to society’s standards that white lies are inconsequential. I don’t believe in hiding behind words that aren’t truthful. I’m an impatient man. I don’t beat around the bush. If you ask me something, I won’t lie to you.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“Feelings were like a rich piece of cake: too much made you sick. My indifference was like a comfort blanket. I wrapped myself up in it and kept myself from feeling. Life was easier this way.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“Once you made someone happy, you were obligated to keep them that way.”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“Joy came always after pain.” ― Guillaume Apollinaire”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero

“I knew i was cold. But no one had ever cared enough to point it out. Not that Everett cared. He didn't. He couldn't. I was a shell. Hard on the outside, empty on the inside" - Parker”
― Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero