The Beauty That Remains Quotes

“Lying is the new language we speak. It's the only way we can talk at all.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“I can't stand on my own in a world where you don't exist.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“My heart’s beating.
My chest’s heaving.
I’m not breathing.
And you’re gone.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“Everything is different without you here. Especially me. But I’m starting to think that maybe that’s okay.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“The number of ifs and what-ifs are infinite, and I keep listing them – trying to convince myself or Dante, or maybe you, that I’m sorry, that life and death are random, that we can’t control anything except how we deal with it all now.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“Maybe it's not the trauma that sparks your creativity. Maybe it's you speaking your truth. Remember how you told me once that secrets were safer? Maybe they're more dangerous than you think." -Gertrude”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“For the sensitive among us,
sometimes the noise
is just too much.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“I don't know if he gets it, because things are different with boys. They don't claim one another the way girls do. They don't learn who they are because of their friends" -Autumn”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“A lie:

'All you need is love.'

The truth:
you need a hell of a lot more
than that.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“I close my eyes tightly for a long minute, open them, and start a portrait of you.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“I don't ever have to say your name if I don't want to. He always just knows.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“But you’re better?” he asks in that way of his.
I think of Dante. “I’m working on it.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains