Inexpressible Island Quotes

“What are you so worried about? What makes you think if we got together that we’d even stay together? We wouldn’t, most likely. Nothing is permanent, especially in this town. Everything is just another set, waiting to be dismantled and hauled to the dumpster. We’d hook up, have some fun for a few weeks, a few laughs, nothing wrong with that. And then we’d go out separate ways. It would end the way most things end. I’d think about you for a while. Maybe you’d think about me. I’d ache for you a little bit, the way one does when things are over, even things that aren’t meant to be. I’d get busy with my life. You’d get busy with yours. We’d say we’d keep in touch. But we never would. And when people asked, we’d say we had a thing once, you and me. One minute it was, and the next it wasn’t. It didn’t mean it wasn’t real. It just wasn’t forever. And years later maybe we’d run into each other on the street somewhere, and you’d barely remember my name. And I’d barely remember yours. I’d say to you, hey, remember how you once loved me? And you’d say sorry, not really. And I’d say yeah, me neither.”
― Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island

“and a beggar and says it’s all right? Who knows my alms, my gifts, my offerings, who knows my love, who knows my heart? Julian was in agony, the lungs trying to expand, hot needles burning his veins, his body melting. Who searches my soul for my hidden burdens”
― Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island: Star-Crossed Lovers' Heartbreaking War Against Fate and Time

“They ooze blood out of their wounds and live inside their regret.”
― Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island

“If they had stayed together for years, and he went off to war, and when he came back, their house had burned down, and she was gone, and he searched for her across the scorched South, and when he finally found her, he took her in his arms and pressed her to his lips. [...] He might say, I have searched behind the sun for you, at the bottom of the earth for you. [...] He might say, my love, I have found you again.”
― Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island

“That's why no one has abandoned London. They are all fragments of a city. They're part of something, they belong to something whole. If they leave, pieces will go missing.”
― Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island