We Could Be Beautiful Quotes

“It took me a long time to understand that what I had wanted was not a picture of something perfect. I already had that. What I had wanted was the feeling inside the pictures, the thing I had been trying to buy and drink and eat and not eat and fake my way to all my life. I wanted what everyone wanted. I wanted love.”
― Swan Huntley, We Could Be Beautiful

“Before you drown, the spinning just feels like a dance.”
― Swan Huntley, We Could Be Beautiful

“I remember the day I looked at William and truly thought he was the answer. That with him, my life could be beautiful. I had thought that beauty was in the flashy, pretty things you acquired to prove that you were happy. But a flash is just a flash. It blinds you and then it disappears.

Now I think real beauty might be in all the small and obvious places I had overlooked. Oh, a rock in Manhattan. Oh, an empty street in Manhattan. Oh, my sister and me watching a movie. Oh, the sky. Our lives could be beautiful in the quietest ways, and already were.”
― Swan Huntley, We Could Be Beautiful

“You can be in the same rut for so long, and then, seemingly out of nowhere, everything changes and you remember what the point is. The point, of course, is love. To love someone, to be loved by someone: that is the point.”
― Swan Huntley, We Could Be Beautiful

“It’s funny. My life only came together after it blew up.”
― Swan Huntley, We Could Be Beautiful

“I could never understand why people liked to cook. It was so much work for the twelve minutes it took to eat the thing you had made.”
― Swan Huntley, We Could Be Beautiful

“Denial, I have learned, is not the act of lying to yourself. Denial is not an act, it’s a state. It’s the state of not knowing you are a liar. I was fixated on a certain picture of my life, and that picture was reflected on the surface of everything I saw. We do not choose to be blind, and when we are blind, we don’t know that. We see as much as we can bear to see, and we assume that’s all there is.” - Catherine in We Could Be Beautiful”
― Swan Huntley, We Could Be Beautiful