Where Sea Meets Sky Quotes

“Home isn’t a country or a place … It’s where you belong”.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“The truth is, I’m torn between wanting to tear her clothes off and fuck her senseless or wanting to sit somewhere quiet and talk to her the whole night. It’s a curious war I’m fighting, but I’d be happy with either victory”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“We’re so undefined, so fleeting and fragile and new, but I don’t think he could belong to anyone else, and I couldn’t belong to anyone else but him.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I love this place, too, it’s imprinted on me as much as you are. But in the end, it’s still for you. I love you. I’m in love with you. I’m not going home. You are my home. I’m staying with you.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“Let it be wild, let it be messy. It’s the first sunrise of many more to come. You can’t screw it up. If you do, there’s always tomorrow.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I love you, I think as my heart seems to expand inside me.
And you’ll hurt me.
You’ll burn me.
You’ll mark me.
But it’s already worth it.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“Everything has a new meaning with you.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“Take this opportunity … and find what makes you happy. You may never get that chance again. Time waits for no one.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“Gemma.” His voice is rough and heated. “Some people may expect nothing. Most people expect something. But you, you, should expect everything.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“You can only ignore the call so many times before you know it’s time to go.
Life is spreading her legs for me.
I’m going in.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“if you find that person who makes you feel like everything going forward is worth living, hold on to her.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I believe,” I say slowly, “that everyone you meet leaves an imprint on you. By the end of your life, that imprint has shaped who you are and what life you’ve lived. So, I guess it’s kind of the same thing.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“Being inside her feels like being home, it feels like being in love, it feels like everything sweet and beautiful and nice in the world. Every time I come in her I hope I’m making a home for myself, a place where I belong.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I feel like I’m living my life instead of just getting by. I’m doing something, being somebody. Before this…I was just going through the motions. Now I am the motion.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I am in love with Joshua Miles, and it’s bringing me to life. It’s killing me. It’s making me crazy. I think I love that part, too. It twists and loops around us, tying us to one another. It steals my thoughts and makes me think of him. It steals my hands and makes me touch his skin. It’s brutal and kind and sharp and soft and warm and cold and freeing and imprisoning. It’s an incognito imposter taking over my world, spreading itself like a disease.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“It's scary, opening yourself up to be hurt, I know. But even if you don't, you'll hurt anyway.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I had no idea that once you realized you were in love, it was nearly fucking impossible to keep it to yourself”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“That's the beauty of traveling. Haven't you caught on yet? There are no strangers here, just friends you haven't met yet.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I never understood why anyone would choose to go out into the world without armor on, to feel all the stabs, punches, and stings of life. That’s not how I wanted to live. I wanted to be free from pain, from loss, from broken dreams.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I know very well that I’m leaving, but that isn’t stopping these feelings from happening. In fact, it only makes it sweeter, stronger, because I know we don’t have much time together.”
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“At the very least, we should be screwing each other’s brains out until I get on that plane.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I'm out there competing with a million other hungry grads. You know they should have warned us in high school. Instead they told us we were all fucking special snowflakes and the world was at out feet. Such bullshit.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I'm great at lying to myself.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“People can be a pain in the ass.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“Attachments hurt when they’re taken away. You’re leaving”
“So what?” I tell her. “I’m attached to you already and I’m still leaving … Doesn’t mean that the pain negates everything, that none of this was worth it.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“Tattoos are time stamps. That's why I don't believe in regrettable tattoos. I mean, shit, I've seen some pretty ugly ones and I'm glad I don't have any of those. But, really, as long as your tattoo looks nice and it aesthetically pleasing, then why regret it? It symbolizes a moment in your life in a world where everything passes us by in the blink of an eye. I think it's good to have these reminders to bring you back. Make you remember, reflect.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“Love is a fucking head trip. It’s a bad idea. It’s utterly distracting and, ironically, I think love is bad for your heart.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“Let it be wild, let it be messy. It’s the first sunrise of many more to come. You can’t screw it up. If you do, there’s always tomorrow.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“Do you know what they teach you in Boy Scouts?”
I shake my head.
“Neither do I,” he says. “I was kicked out after the second day for lighting shit on fire.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky

“I quickly remember that I had put a condom in my satchel because I figured that pretending to be a ripped, violent warrior might just be walking lady porn.”
― Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky