Forever is the Worst Long Time Quotes

“Once you love someone that way, you love them forever. That's just how it goes.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“As much as we crave a concise, linear narrative, life happens as it will, often in a haphazard fashion that feels anything but finished. We must cobble together our most important moments and call them our story.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“Love me when I'm at my worst. Love me when you don't agree with me, and when this no longer feels new and surprising. Love me through it all.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“Being something for someone else is a perfectly good waste of a life, isn’t it?”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“To have been placed on this planet with you...at the same time...is the gift of my life.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“The people we are drawn to are the ones we need most, even if we are never able to fully comprehend why.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“But try to remember that loss is an incredible stroke of luck. Yes, luck. For loss carries with it two truths: that you have loved, and that you yourself have had the good fortune to live a little longer.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“Funny -- an incident that feels like a massive misstep as it's happening often ends up as a footnote in your personal history, if you remember it at all. But a seemingly insignificant "should have" can turn out to be one of your biggest regrets.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“Candles blazing, the people closet to me in the world sang "Happy Birthday," and I grinned like a fool and tried not to cry because it was so wonderful and so disarming - almost like being transported back to a moment in childhood that I had not actually lived through. I blew out the candles and everyone cheered. "Thank you all for being here with me," I said, too choked up to manage more. It is so easy to go through your days stewing about someone stealing your parking spot without giving the same attention to your child's arms around your neck, to grumble about the ever-increasing cost of groceries without realizing just how good it is have warm toast and a fresh cup of coffee while sitting across from the one you love.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“But above all, I want you to embrace the love you find yourself drawn to, whatever that may be. I hope this book will show you that if you can find it in you to push past the fear of loving another person—if you can learn to live with the inevitable loss that comes with doing so—you will know a good and meaningful life.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“I want you to roar back at the things that scare you. I want for you a life that is not just happy, but meaningful. But above all, I want you to embrace the love you find yourself drawn to, whatever that may be. I hope this book will show you that if you can find it in you to push past the fear of loving another person—if you can learn to live with the inevitable loss that comes with doing so—you will know a good and meaningful life.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“There is something about leaving things undone that wears away your confidence,”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“I know, having myself lost a parent too soon, that being without a father will not be easy for you. But try to remember that loss is an incredible stroke of luck. Yes, luck. For loss caries with it two truths: that you have loved, and hat you yourself have had the good fortune to live a little longer.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“How I will miss her. I still sometimes question my love for her. Where did it come from, and why did it take me so long to let it go, if I really have at all? All I can do is accept that it has woven itself into the fabric of who I am. I could be wrong, but I suspect that the people we are drawn to are the ones we need most, even if we are never able to fully comprehend why. Maybe in Lou, I saw the possibility of you. Maybe in me, she saw you, too, and that became our fate and future.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“Something in me was unfurling fast, and it was wonderful or terrible, depending on how you looked at it. Maybe both.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“It was one of those moments when you feel unbelievably lucky to have been placed on the planet at the same time as the people in your life" - Camille Pagan, Forever is the Worst Long Time”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“I could be wrong, but I suspect that the people we are drawn to are the ones we need most, even if we are never able to fully comprehend why.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“It's been said that every good parent wants only for his child to be happy. I want happiness for you, but so much more. I want you to not know the pain that awaits you. I want you to roar back at the things that scare you. I want for you a life that is not just happy, but meaningful.

But above all, I want you to embrace the love you find yourself drawn to, whatever that may be. I hope this book will show you that if you can find it in you to push past the fear of loving another person - if you can lean to live with the inevitable loss that comes with doing so - you will know a good and meaningful life.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“But I loved her in spite of these issues, and maybe even more because of them. For the first time, Nora had demonstrated to me that a strong relationship didn't require an absence of strife, that two people could hold opposing viewpoints (whether on toilet paper or public policy) and still be deeply in love and committed to their partnership.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“But try to remember that loss is an incredible stroke of luck.
Yes, luck. For loss carries with it two truths: that you have loved, and that you yourself have had the good fortune to live a little longer.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“When something comes to you so easily, it may leave that same way, and you'll be left wondering if it ever was at all.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“but I suspect that the people we are drawn to are the ones we need most, even if we are never able to fully comprehend why.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“A miracle is the first time you touch your child’s downy skin; it is every time you hear her laughter. It is a mouth you love upon your own; it is the life you purposefully forge with another person.)”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“Once you love someone all the way, you love them forever. That’s just how it goes.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“It’s funny—an incident that feels like a massive misstep as it’s happening often ends up as a footnote in your personal history, if you remember it at all. But a seemingly insignificant “should have” can turn out to be one of your biggest regrets.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“On the whole, I was actually quite content. But we humans aren’t too good at stasis, are we? No—we like to throw a wrench into something the minute it starts running smoothly. We throw ourselves over the ledge reaching for the big, shiny object, when the smaller, duller version would do just fine.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“So, writing this to you from that precipice, I will simply say this: If you find yourself in an effortless position in life, as I did beside Kathryn in bed that fall morning, enjoy it, but don’t stop there. When something comes to you so easily, it may leave that same way, and you’ll be left wondering if it ever was at all.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“dark things must be loved secretly, in the space between the soul and the shadows.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“Because there’s no such thing as life without heartbreak,”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time

“Because I was not sure a short stay in paradise had been worth an extended stint in purgatory.”
― Camille Pagán, Forever is the Worst Long Time