Hawthorne & Heathcliff Quotes

“Sometimes love isn’t forever. Sometimes it’s just moments in your life that teach you. If it’s the forever after kind of love, it’ll find you again. If it isn’t, don’t let a broken heart break you. Let it make you love harder. Love is a mistake worth making.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Rough rides are smoother when you’ve got a passenger who understands the road.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Life is like a book. Some of the pages you want to rip out and others you want to keep. I’ve been ripping out a lot of pages lately, getting rid of the ugly stuff. The stuff that’s left behind isn’t as bad as I thought it was.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“There’s this thing love stories always forget to mention. That love isn’t a constant thing. Sometimes it changes, other times it fades completely. Sometimes you have to fall in love twice to truly understand it.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“People don’t die, we pass into memory. I’ll live through you, through your heart and your mind. That’s the wonderful thing about life. Our bodies die, but memory allows us to live in those we love.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“I like running because it lets everything go. I like walking back because it reminds me why I ran in the first place.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Love could just be a moment, an amazing moment that could teach a person to breathe. It didn’t have to hold a person back.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“The unknown is exciting. Not knowing what you really want to do is an adventure. It's a chance to go out there and find out what you want, to learn about yourself. Not everyone has it figured out, you know.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“He’d left me a song, a pair of shoes, and a reason to fly. It was enough.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“You think my heart will be broken?” “I think your heart will learn. The heart can’t be broken if you don’t let it break. Let it, Hawthorne. People are so afraid of being broken that they don’t allow themselves to learn from the pain. The heart can’t be taught if you don’t give it something to learn.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“What was better?” he asked. “The kiss or the fall?” He pulled to a stop in front of the house, and I smiled, my face averted. “Aren’t they the same thing?”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“In truth, I don’t really know what I want to do or who I want to be. I just want the freedom to find out.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“There are no words big enough to describe grief. It’s an incredibly lonely, empty place, a large hole that swallows your soul and threatens to destroy it. It’s a dark place with no light that blinds you, deafens you, and crushes your spirit. It’s a place full of memories you’re afraid to lose.
I was in that place. No amount of tears washed away the loneliness. No amount of screams chased it away. There were simply memories, an avalanche of memories that I desperately needed to hold onto.
There was so much that death didn’t prepare me for. It didn’t prepare me for the storm that would break my will. ~Hawthorn”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“It was time for me to spread my broken wings, to let in the fear and the possibility of heartache. My heart knew what it meant to be broken. It wasn’t breaking my heart I was afraid of. It was healing.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“There’s nothing wrong with emotional scars. Sometimes those are deeper than physical ones.” I”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Truth was, life had taught me that words were better spoken when they meant something.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Do something for me,” I whispered. “Quit fighting. It’s okay to let go now. It’s okay to rest. For my sake.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Maybe love could just be a moment, the kind that teaches rather than robs.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“You can do anything, Hawthorne. I won’t be leaving. Not really. People don’t die, we pass into memory. I’ll live through you, through your heart and your mind. That’s the wonderful thing about life. Our bodies die, but memory allows us to live in those we love.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“poured love into the meal, the kind of love you have for someone that hurts so much that not having loved them would be worse than never having them in the first place.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“My fingers pressed against the paper’s blue lines. They were like veins, those lines. Straight, perfect veins waiting for the words that would breathe oxygen into them. “I”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“There are no words big enough to describe grief. It’s an incredibly lonely, empty place, a large hole that swallows your soul and threatens to destroy it. It’s a dark place with no light that blinds you, deafens you, and crushes your spirit. It’s a place full of memories you’re afraid to lose. ~Hawthorne”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Feelings are fast. Try to outrun them, and they catch you. ~Hawthorne”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“That’s the wonderful thing about life. Our bodies die, but memory allows us to live in those we love.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Two names that didn't belong to us. Two shoes that did.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“He’d come back because I’d seen in his eyes what he’d probably seen in mine. He was going to break my heart. Somehow I knew that, and instead of running, I was waiting for the pain.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“I stared at the night's first stars, as if their twilight-dimmed glow would reveal something to me, give me answers to the universe I didn't understand. My world had been so small up until now, so small and yet so painfully safe, too.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Pain doesn’t go away, but it does a lot to change you. My”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“So, in short, I don’t have to look into a mirror to see the changes in me. I just need to keep walking, and I need to care enough about my shoes to stop occasionally and think about where they’ve taken me.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“I’ve now loved two men in my life, and I’ve lost them both. Losing them hurts, but their lives taught me so much about living that what they taught me somehow overshadows the loss.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff