The Love Song Quotes

“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.” “Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we’ll never get used to it.” “It looks like I’m floating but I’m not floating. Sometimes I draw you with fangs. I tell you these things because I love you.” — Richard Siken”
― Kay Simone, The Love Song

“Their love isn’t about completing one another because they were both complete years before they met. What they have is about being more than the sum of their parts”
― Kay Simone, The Love Song

“Blue fucking skies and good fucking vibes. Christ, what a pipe dream.”
― Kay Simone, The Love Song

“You don’t just live your life one way for 19 years and turn on a dime.”
― Kay Simone, The Love Song

“Maybe once you knew what the ripping feeling of sorrow was like, it was harder to appreciate anything but that, always knowing that it would come back eventually.”
― Kay Simone, The Love Song

“Time had a way of slowing down for him whenever he decided to wade into memories with no stimulation to keep him from thinking all of the worst.”
― Kay Simone, The Love Song

“He spent most of the cash he had in his pockets on disposable hand warmers and the rest on whatever was on sale at the gas station:”
― Kay Simone, The Love Song

“I think it’s about beauty in the mundane,” Casey said, cautiously. “About how there’s truth in everything—like how you don’t need to go somewhere special to experience beauty.”
― Kay Simone, The Love Song