The Fable of Us Quotes

“When you love someone, do it right and love them forever. Don’t leave them wondering the whole time when it’s going to run out or expire.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“It doesn’t seem to matter how far away I go or how many years go by. I’m starting to accept that there will always be some part of me that is going to hold on to some part of you.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“People say we’re weak where we’ve been broken, but I say we’re stronger.” Boone traced the long jagged line running right down the center of her. “We’re stronger because we know our weak spots and can protect them more carefully the next time.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“So please stop pretending you were the only casualty in the game of you and me. Because I bled just like you did. I died a little that day too.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“What once was broken can be fixed.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“Only because to really know and understand a person, that person has to want to be known and understood. Which you didn’t. Which you probably never will.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“The fable of us had been rewritten. With a spin that had exposed the truth. Instead of the happily never after we’d been dealt or with the happily ever after that was a lie, we were retelling the ending. Boone and Clara—happily even after. It was a great story. The greatest one I’d ever heard.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“Life wasn’t about learning how to deflect the bad, but learning how to hunker down and weather it until it passed. I supposed . . . no, I knew, it was the same way with love.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“It seemed like the people who cried the least for help were the ones who generally needed it most.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“Sometimes the people we’re supposed to love are the hardest ones to. And sometimes the people we’re not supposed to love are the easiest.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“You can paint it white and braid its mane, but at the end of the day, you can’t turn an ass into a unicorn, no matter how much glitter and flowers you sprinkle on it.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“Why was my body’s reaction to coming home the same as if I were being chased by a pack of wolves in waist-deep snow?”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“I think that’s what Reverend Simmons would call fixating on the speck in your neighbor’s eye while ignoring the fucking plank in your own.” “Reverend”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“You’ve always been the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, Clara.” The backs of his fingers ran down the length of my cheek. “That still hasn’t changed.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“Hey, Boone?” He was already watching me. “Yeah?” “I’m someone who gives a shit about you.” I bit my lip, dropping my gaze. “You know, just in case you needed a verbal confirmation.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“What once was broken can be fixed.” Boone lifted the angel with the number eighteen at her feet. I could still see every crack from the break, but she was fixed. “It’ll always bear the scars, but at least it’s whole again.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“Rip the bandage off had been the theme of my visit so far—and the theme of much of my life down here.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“Don’t project his mistakes from the past onto him now. Don’t let past choices define present actions.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us

“You’ve always got a choice. You have a choice now, and you certainly had a choice then. Don’t blame them for the choices you made.”
― Nicole Williams, The Fable of Us