I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You Quotes

“You look like someone
who has gone to war
and came back
with a thousand deaths burned in his eyes.
You look like someone
who has been told a dozen promises –
promises that broke his heart
when he realized
he didn't matter enough
for them to be kept.
You look like someone
whose edges started to chip away.
You look like someone I could love,
someone whose darkness I could light up.
But goddamn it, darling,
I promised myself
I would never fall in love with a broken man.
I have loved so many broken people
and I have fixed them all up.
I kept giving all I had,
until I had nothing left to give.
You look like someone I could love,
someone I want to fall in love with.
But you‘re in pieces,
I know you‘ll just wound me.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“We ended the way all good things in my life had a way of being put to rest – abrupt and without my permission.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I love you with the words I left unsaid, with the silence that I often spoke, that you still understood. I love you for the constant push and pull of my dissonance, for every internal battle that ensued because of you.I love you for the heights of irrationality you have driven me, for making me lose control. But most of all, I love you because you‘re not mine — because we almost happened. because I would never find out what would happen next… because you‘ll always be a question without an answer.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I want to ruin you in the ugliest way imaginable so that someday, when you have to tell your children about me, it will take every breath you have to hide the catch in your throat”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I‘m no good at loving people but…


I will love you
like the darkness loves the stars.
I'm the goddess of the night.
I will smear my ink
over your skin,
and leave paper cuts
where the light can get in.
I will break you
then make you whole.
You‘ll be the moon
lighting up the sky.
But I will never be done –
we‘ll dance together
until my darkness is gone.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“Don't fall in love with me. I am dissonance. I am always at war with myself – confusing my head with my heart, always retreating into my mind, because I don‘t want to lose.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“If you were coffee, you would be bitter and strong; the kind that makes my heart palpitate its way out of my chest -the kind that can turn my thoughts manic. Oh, just the way I would like it. I like it.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“Hell is a place on earth, they say.

Shakespeare got that one right.
For I have been torturing myself
over things that I could never change.
Hell is a place on earth;
it‘s in my mind.
and you are the one
sitting on the Devil‘s throne.
I can‘t forget you.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I'm so sorry no one cared enough to tell you that you can never win against a ghost.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I don‘t know if you noticed but I have been trying, too hard, to be myself since the day I lost you.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I love how you know
there's a dozen things
that's wrong with me
but you still say I'm just fine.
It makes me think
that there are really no monsters
So terrifying
they can't be loved.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“You‘re everything I wanted, all of them, rolled into one. We were lovers and enemies and the best of friends. At times, it was one more than the other. At times, we were all of them all at once. But there have been times, I admit, when we were two complete strangers struggling to live with each other. At times, we felt like We were just each other‘s habit.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“Every night, I take off my clothes to wear thoughts of you.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“No one could love a lonely girl, not unless she had the right kind of lonely”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“―The thing about memory is that you can feel it eroding slowly, being stolen away from you by time. It starts with the way you stop hearing his voice in your head. Then it's the color of the shirt he wore last Christmas. Before you know it, your memories have become fragmented, as if the small details were grains of sand blown away by the wind. I should be grateful that I'm starting to remember you less. Instead, I felt lonely. Pieces of you that I once held dear are being ripped apart into tiny shreds of information my brain thinks I can afford to forget. I can feel my heart fighting. It loves the feel of you though for the most part, you hurt. I looked for you in places where I knew I would never find you, in faces I knew I would never recognize. I looked for you hoping that through the sheer force of my will I would find your eyes staring back. But that's the thing about memory - you can feel it eroding slowly, being stolen away from you by time. I want to remember you. But I'm no longer entirely sure I really remember you. It kills me. Have you started remembering me less too?”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“We were lovers and enemies and the best of friends. At times, it was one more than the other. At times, we were all of them all at once. But there have been times, I admit, when we were two complete strangers struggling to live with each other. At times, we felt like We were just each other‘s habit.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“He was broken in the best way – in a way that made me stop and stare and want to love him.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“You were too ready to believe the worst in me. And I was too hopeful I believed the best in you.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I am so much more than the hint of rage you discern hiding behind my restraint. I am so much more than the words I use. I am bottled heartache and the lies I tell myself when everyone else is asleep.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“If you understood how it hurt to hug my chest and keep all my sobs to myself, every day, when I see how bleak my world has become because of you, you would be down on your knees saying sorry for each and every time you uttered a careless thought or forgot that even though I'm calm on the outside, behind closed doors, I could bleed and hurt.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I always liked the idea of choosing between two things — I liked choosing the lesser evil. I liked the danger that came with the near miss of being wrong. I liked the wave of relief that always welcomed me after I've wrestled with myself. I like pain, I was told. And choosing between two things is a brand of pain on its own.But you taught me that there is a sense of peace in not having to make a choice. You taught me that if I wanted to, I can have it all. Just when I was about to learn… We ended. We ended the way all good things in my life had a way of being put to rest –abrupt and without my permission.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I want to ruin you in the ugliest way imaginable so that someday, when you have to tell your children about me, it will take every breath you have to hide the catch in your throat...”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I will be the constant reminder in your life that you will never be alone anymore. And should your brain start playing tricks on you, you start forgetting who I am or where we live, I will still be there, every morning. Until all the grays of our hair have become so wise, they will feel they've learned all there is to life and decide it's time for us to go.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“You look like someone who has gone to war and came back with a thousand deaths burned in his eyes. You look like someone who has been told a dozen promises –promises that broke his heart when he realized he didn't matter enough for them to be kept. You look like someone whose edges started to chip away. You look like someone I could love, someone whose darkness I could light up.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“You are the silence and madness of my mind.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I can see you becoming my wild nights filled with clenched teeth and scraping of nails against flesh.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I think of you, my darling, in the most inconvenient of times. I think of you when I‘m talking to my friends when I‘m working when I‘m reading the news. I think of you when I‘m eating or taking a bath or when I‘m supposed to be writing. I think of you and how your smile makes my days brighter. I smile and think to myself how lucky I am to sometimes be the reason why you smile.I think of you and how you look when you‘re upset. I think of you and how I‘d love to have your voice lull me to sleep. I think of you and how I want to sleep next to you at night and wake up next to you and see your face the first thing in the morning. God, it drives everything that‘s a woman in me crazy. But then I‘ll think of you again, and I won‘t stop thinking of you unless I catch myself doing it.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“You look like someone who would fit right into my vacant parts. You feel too much. I feel too little. You wish to remember. I wish to forget. You love the colors of the day. I love to dance in the dark. Your cup is empty of words. Mine is full to the brim. I know it will be presumptuous of me. But perhaps the reason why we are who are, is that we were meant to be.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I will kill in cold blood just to know the secret you keep in your lonely eyes.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“Say my name with hints of longing and hunger. I'd like to hear the desire in your voice scraping against the walls, messing up the sheets of my bed, scratching on my skin. Caress every single letter of me like you‘re making love to me. I want to be owned by you.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You