Here's to Falling Quotes

“Life knocks you down. It’s going to, and you got to just turn around and get back up, hold on to me if you have to, but always get back up. People will just walk all over you if you leave yourself beaten on the ground.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“When I look back on all the past chapters of my life, I see all the pain I have endured. I see the mistakes and heartbreak, the horror and loss. But when I stand in front of the mirror now, I see all my scars and the strength I’ve found from them. I see the lessons I have learned about life and the wisdom I’ve gained from each of my experiences. I will be fine”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“Here’s the twist to your story, Charlie. You ready for it?" he growled and nipped at my lower lip. "Breathe me in deep. Hold your breath. I will make you fall in love with me again. Because I sure as shit didn’t think I’d ever see you again, and I sure as shit didn’t think I could fall in love with you again, but I did." His hands gripped me tighter. "Like I was falling from a cliff, Charlie. Then...then…I realized when I hit the ground; I’ve been in love with you this whole time. It never stopped. I’ll never stop. I will never stop, and I will never give up on you." His voice lowered, “It was you from the beginning, the minute you taped that skull and crossbones to your window wearing those baggy jeans, that Nirvana T-shirt, and those God-awful chucks, you were my horizon. Everything I could ever see.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's To Falling

“Charlie. If someone ever breaks your wings, you just got to find some other way to fly. Show them what you’re worth, Charlie. Nobody should set your value but you.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's To Falling

“I wish there was a device implanted in out brains to record memories, so we could play them back and watch them whenever we wanted, like old home movies.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“Come on, Charlie, come with me down the rabbit hole.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“I may have loved to read my romance and smut novels, but I was not blinded by the 'fiction' part of it all. I knew the difference between what was real and what came from a hopeless romantic's imagination.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“It was always you. Always. There is nothing you can tell me that will make me look at you as anything other than my Charlie.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“Here’s to falling…” He levelled his eyes on both of us. “…in love…and to the best example of it that I’ve ever seen, which is sitting right in front of me. And here’s to hoping my two best friends finally find the guts to tell each other they’ve been in love with one another since the fourth fucking grade. Cheers.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“Here’s my lesson to you: Don’t wish for a knight in shining armor. You’ll just end up spending most of your time doing lots of polishing. And that armor tarnishes faster than any other substance on earth; instead, spend that time on yourself.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“I want my best friend back. I want the best thing that ever happened to me back. And I promise you I will make you fall in love with me all over again. This time, it’ll be the forever kind.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“I'm like a robot most of the time. Going through motions, getting through life one day at a time.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“Amen," he whispered against my lips. "Charlie...been all over the world, seen so many places, but I swear my favorite place is against your lips.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's To Falling

“True love always comes back.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's To Falling

“I want my best friend back. I want the best thing that ever happened to me back. And I promise you I will make you fall in love with me all over again. This time, it’ll be the forever kind.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“Here’s to falling…” He levelled his eyes on both of us. “…in love…and to the best example of it that I’ve ever seen, which is sitting right in front of me. And here’s to hoping my two best friends finally find the guts to tell each other they’ve been in love with one another since the fourth fucking grade. Cheers.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“Slowly, deliberately, he lowered his lips to mine. I could hardly breathe. My chest tightened, heart beating fiercely against my rib cage.

He stilled, just over my lips, and breathed me in. Anticipation and need wrestled between us. His chest moved faster, a quick rise and fall as he still kept his eyes fixed steadily on mine. He was making sure. He was making sure I saw only him, making sure I was okay.

And I was.
All I saw was him.
And then, his lips brushed softly over mine, and I melted into him”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“I thought about how people should never hide from their feelings and truths—how so much time always gets wasted. If this was the book of my life, I wanted to skim all the way to the good parts.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“I couldn't focus on anything I was doing when the fate of one of my fictional characters hung in the balance. There were only twenty pages or so left, and I was in desperate need of a happily-ever-after.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“I'm going to remind you how much we loved each other.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“if onlys' never help anything, they just drive you insane.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“How long will I love you? I can’t choose between forever and always.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“You gotta love a girl who reads…one of those girls that wakes you up at two a.m. clutching her books to her chest in tears. I just love a chick who reads. They see things that other people don’t. They can find magic in words and bring life into the mundane everyday things with their imagination. I'd just let her wake me up and give her a hug, pull her close. I’d let her tell me about the scene in the book that made her cry. Then, to comfort her, I’d kiss the fucking hell out of her lips, make her want to read a book that I was the main character in. Be a man worth immortalizing with words.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“There was nothing that
Could ever come between us.
We were each other’s
forever.
But forever isn’t real.
Is it?”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“It always killed me the way that he could make everything better. He always made everything better for me. Easier. Simpler. Worth doing. He never questioned my worth.
Just jump.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“If you can’t handle me at my hairiest, then sweetie, you don’t deserve me when I’m waxed.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“Some things are best left in the past. Hidden deep alongside your secrets.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“You don’t start the fight, guys,” he would say. “But you don’t let anyone push you around. Because once they push you, even an inch, they’ll keep doing it. Teach them that nobody can ever hurt you.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“Mark my words, one day you’ll feel like your world is crashing, spinning out of control, whatever the Hell that is to you, whatever storm that comes, whatever tragedy floods your life. And, believe me, you’ll have them; we all get touched by some tragedy in our lives. You better hope you’ve got the strength to swim, before it pulls you under and you drown, or become nothing more than the storm, forever moving across the waters, stirring up trouble wherever you touch down.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling

“Very few guys sparked my interest and managed to hold it.”
― Christine Zolendz, Here's to Falling