A Thousand Boy Kisses Quotes

“Live hard, love harder. Chase dreams, seek adventures … capture moments. Live beautifully.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Why does it take a life ending to learn how to cherish each day? Why must we wait until we run out of time to start to accomplish all that we dreamed, when once we had all the time in the world? Why don’t we look at the person we love the most like it’s the last time we will ever see them? Because if we did, life would be so vibrant. Life would be so truly and completely lived.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“kiss 1000 with Poppymin.
When she returned home.
My heart completely burst.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Why be miserable when you can be happy? It’s an obvious choice to me.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“This isn’t the end. It’s just a little pause in our lives. And I’ll be watching over you, every single day. I’ll be in your heart. I’ll be in the blossom grove that we love so much, in the sun and the wind.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“When you’re near, my heart doesn’t sigh, it soars,”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Maybe we’re like the cherry blossom, Rune. Like shooting stars. Maybe we loved too much too young and burned so bright that we had to fade out.” She pointed behind us, to the blossom grove. “Extreme beauty, quick death. We had this love long enough to teach us a lesson. To show us how capable of love we truly are.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“because sometimes all we get are moments. There are no do-overs; whatever happens in a moment defines life—perhaps it is life.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“He kissed me until there was no part of me that didn’t know who it belonged to. He kissed me until my heart again fused with his—two halves of one whole.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I think hearts beat a rhythm like a song. I think, that just like music, we’re drawn to a particular melody. I heard your heart’s song, and yours heard mine.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Kiss eight hundred and nineteen was the kiss that changed it all. The kiss that proved that a long-haired brooding boy from Norway and a quirky girl from the Deep South could find a love to rival the greats.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I didn’t need grand gestures or fairy tales; a normal life with the boy I loved would have always been enough.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“When you know that something is finite, it makes it that much more meaningful.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“He explains, the times where there is only a single set of footprints were not when He walked beside them, but instead, when He carried them.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“For believers in true, epic, soul-shattering love. This one’s for you.  ”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“She told me that the best and prettiest things never stay around for long. She said that a cherry blossom was too beautiful to last all year. It was more special because its life was short.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“It’s like music,” she explained. “When I look at you, when you touch me, when I see your face … when we kiss, my heart plays a song. It sings that it needs you like I need air. It sings to me that I adore you. It sings that I’ve found its perfect missing part.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“four hundred and thirty-four, with my Rune at the beach … when his love came home.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Because I love her. I love her more than I could ever explain. My single set of footprints in the sand.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I have come to understand that death, for the sick, is not so hard to endure. For us, eventually, our pain ends, we go to a better place. But for those left behind, their pain only magnifies.” Poppy”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I froze, then I asked, “You mean…?”

“Yes, baby,” Poppy replied. “You’ve come home. You’ve come home to me.”

A huge smile spread across my lips, and a flood of pure happiness washed over me. Unable to resist, I crashed my lips to Poppy’s waiting mouth. The minute I tasted her sweet taste on my lips, a deep peace filled me from within. Pulling back, I pressed my forehead to hers.

“I get to stay here with you? Forever?” I asked, praying it was true.

“Yes,” Poppy answered gently, and I could hear the complete serenity in her voice. “Our next adventure.”

This was real.

It was real.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I had no idea how to live a day without her next to me. How to breathe without her by my side.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“So please, light your lanterns and help my kisses reach my girl.” I”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I wish that people realized how this felt every day. Why does it take a life ending to learn how to cherish each day? Why must we wait until we run out of time to start to accomplish all that we dreamed, when once we had all the time in the world? Why don’t we look at the person we love the most like it’s the last time we will ever see them? Because if we did, life would be so vibrant. Life would be so truly and completely lived.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“love was simply the tenacity to make sure that the other half of your heart knew he, or she, was adored in every way.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Poppy’s breathing hollowed and I leaned forward, knowing this was it. I pressed my forehead to hers, just one last time. Poppy lifted her soft hand to my hair. “I love you,” she whispered.

“I love you too, Poppymin.”

As I pulled back, Poppy looked into my eyes and said, “I’ll see you in your dreams.”

Trying to hold back my emotions, I rasped back, “I’ll see you in my dreams.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“We all have people who carry us through the worst of times, the saddest of times, the times that seem impossible to break free from. In”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“they signaled my eternal gratitude to the boy sitting silently in the dark. The boy as gifted at photography as I was at music. He was my heart. The heart freely given to me as a child. The heart that made up one half of my own. The boy who, though breaking inside, loved me so deeply that he gave me this farewell. Gave me, in the present, the dream that my future never could. My soul mate who captured moments.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“An unrivaled beauty, limited in its life. A beauty so extreme in its grace that it can’t last. It stays to enrich our lives, then drifts away in the wind. Never forgotten. Because it reminds us we must live. That life is fragile, yet in that fragility, there is strength. There is love. There is purpose. It reminds us that life is short, that our breaths are numbered and our destiny is fixed, regardless of how hard we fight.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I don’t think, in all my life, that I’ve ever seen two kids love each other so hard so young, and even harder as teens.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses