The Light We Lost Quotes

“Love does that. It makes you feel infinite and invincible, like the whole world is open to you, anything is achievable, and each day will be filled with wonder. Maybe it’s the act of opening yourself up, letting someone else in— or maybe it’s the act of caring so deeply about another person that it expands your heart. I’ve heard so many people say some version of I never knew how much I could love another human being until . . . And after the until is usually something like my niece was born or I gave birth to a child or I adopted a baby. I never knew how much I could love another human being until I met you, Gabe.
I’ll never forget that.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“I hope you find a love like that–one that is all-consuming and powerful that makes you feel like you're going slightly mad. And if you do find that love, embrace it. Hold onto it. When you give yourself over to love like that, your heart will get bruised. It will get battered. But you will also feel invincible and infinite.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“A tear rolled down my cheek. If you died, I realized just then, it would mean that I’d be the keeper of our memories. I’d be the only one on Earth who had experienced them.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“some relationships feel like a wildfire-they're powerful and compelling and majestic and dangerous and have the capability to burn you before you even realize you've been consumed.....some relationships feel like a hearth fire-they're solid and stable and cozy and nourishing.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“The thing about roads is sometimes you happen upon them again. Sometimes you get another chance to travel down the same path.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“Because we only reveal our true selves to the people we care about most.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“There are people we come across during our lives who, after they drift out of our worlds, drift out for good. Even if we see them again, it’s a quick, meaningless hi and how are you? There are other people, though, with whom things pick up right where the relationship left off, whenever we run into them. The level of comfort—it feels like no time has passed.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“A woman filled with light makes everything she touches brighter.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“The way people interpret a situation often says more about them than it does about the situation.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“There’s something about death that makes people want to live. We wanted to live that day, and I don’t blame us for it. Not anymore.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“Ordinary days sometimes turn into extraordinary days when you least expect them to.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“Sometimes we make decisions that seem right at the time, but later, looking back, were clearly a mistake. Some decisions are right even in hindsight.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“We've known each other for almost half our lives.
I've seen you smiling, confident, blissfully happy.
I've seen you broken, wounded, lost.
But I've never seen you like this.
You taught me to look for beauty. In darkness, in destruction, you always found light.
I don't know what beauty I'll find here, what light. But I'll try. I'll do it for you. Because I know you would do it for me.
There was so much beauty in our life together.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“And though she was in this dark and broken place, she was still able to create beauty.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“What I wanted to tell you is that there are lots of ways to love people and I know that you’ll love someone else again. Even if it’s not the same, some of it might be better.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“But you were like a drug. When I was high on you, nothing else mattered.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“We see everything through the filter of our own desires and regrets, hopes and fears.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“I think that making yourself available means putting the relationship you're in first. Not necessarily always, but often. It means making the decision that's best for the two of you, as a unit, even if it means compromising a little individually. It means sharing everything.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“But what was true then, and has been true as long as I’ve known you, is that you find beauty everywhere. You notice things other people don’t. It’s something I’ve always admired about you.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“I love you, Lucy, like hydrogen loves oxygen. A totally different kind of love. An elemental kind.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“The problem with living in the now is it means, by definition, you’re not making plans for the future.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“There is an element of peace in believing that we’re only players on a stage, acting out stories directed by someone else.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“Love does that. It makes you feel infinite and invincible, like the whole world is open to you, anything is achievable, and each day will be filled with wonder.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“Sometimes we make decisions that seem right at the time, but later, looking back, were clearly a mistake.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“I still think about you. I think about that fork in the road, what would have happened if we'd taken it. Two roads diverged. The thing about roads, is sometimes you happen upon them again. Sometimes you get another chance to travel down the same path.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“There are so many kinds of secrets. The sweet ones you want to savor like candy, the grenades that have the potential to destroy your world, and the exciting ones that are more fun the more you share them. Even though our secret was a grenade, it still felt sweet to me.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“I craved the kind of closeness I felt in your embrace... I imagined giving myself over to you, completely, the way I used to, abandoning all control, letting you be in charge. I wanted that. I needed that. I'd been trying so hard to hold everything together, and I was done. I needed someone else to take over. I needed YOU to take over.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“I often think about how throughout life, we acquire people. More like People, with a capital P. The ones we go to in an emergency—the ones we know we can count on. If we’re lucky, our parents are our first People. Then our siblings. A childhood best friend. A spouse.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“I hope that you find a love like that—one that is all-consuming and powerful, that makes you feel like you’re going slightly mad. And if you do find that love, embrace it. Hold on to it. When you give yourself over to love like that, your heart will get bruised. It will get battered. But you will also feel invincible and infinite.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“About how you felt unmoored, like no one was connecting you to the earth anymore, like you could float away and no one would notice.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost