DROPKICKromance Quotes

“let’s build
bookshelves together
and fill them
with our story.

—ours will always be my favorite. ”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“promise?” — how to trick yourself into coping with trust issues.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“I travel light-years in keystrokes”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“the road between us was fractured beyond repair, but we refused to let it crumble away into dust, so we tarred up the cracks and hoped it would be enough.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“the things about keeping
the world
at an arm's length
is that it becomes
far too easy
to become attached
to the first person who shows you
the slightest bit of affection”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“I could spend eternity following you around every corner of every bookstore, watching you search for the perfect story to get lost in.
- your passion is my passion”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“You bought me a copy of your favorite book, and I ate each word like candy. I devoured chapter after chapter, and when I reached the end, I was left hungry for more. Reading became my favorite pastime. With every turn of the page, every new chapter, I got to fall in love with the same words, the same characters, the same places, that you fell in love with.
-And it was like falling in love with you all over again.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“We found each other in darkness and made our own light. Together, we burned brighter than anything that awaited us on the other side.
- the sun has nothing on you.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“-i'm tired of being the runner-up in my own life”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“we'll pretend you regret what you did
we'll pretend i'm not damaged goods”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“You believed in me when I didn't believe in myself. You taught me how to love again when I had lost all hope. You showed me how to be a person I could finally be proud of. If not for you, I would not be the person I am today. If not for you, I would not be.
- For that, I thank you.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“You gave me books and showed me how to live, and a thousand and one lives. You gave me a pen and showed me how to write this one.
-I owe my voice to you.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“I look out the backseat window of the car filled with all of my best friends and rest my eyes on the moon, and I wonder: how can it be that the moon is surrounded by all of the stars in the nighttime sky, and yet it still looks so isolated from the rest of the universe around it?
- lonely ≠ alone”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“In every book I read, I see you. I see you in every heroine who isn't afraid to stand up and say whatever's on her mind. I see you in every heroine who wears the term "unlikable" like a badge of honor. I see you in every heroine who's had to endure the unimaginable, yet still finds the strength to fight another day. I see you in every heroine who's had to carry a revolution she never asked to be a part of in the first place.
- You are the strongest person I know.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“We were broken shards of stained glass mirrors, a jagged mess of every color in the universe. They shaped us, shattered us, and left us to pick up the pieces. And so we pieced each other back together, your pieces mixed with mine, and mine mixed with yours.
-from the broken, we'll make art.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“Every lost color returned, one by one by one like cherry blossoms bursting to life in the spring, brighter and more vivid than ever before.
- pleasantville ii”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“You understand me better than anyone else ever has. You understand me better than I understand myself.
-One heart, one mind.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“Tell me everything. Take the weight off your shoulders, and let me carry it on mine. Because you've been burdened by it for far too long.
-rest easy.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“One look into those honest eyes, and I knew I could tear myself apart before you, bare every last piece of this broken soul. and there would be no judgement. Only understanding.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“i ripped myself from the water's grasp and heaved myself onto your front doorstep, where on your welcome mat i threw up all the truth that i had no choice but to swallow”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance

“Your self-destruction wasn't something I could stand by and watch, even at a distance. I've watched people I love suffer endlessly until the only thing left for them to do was die, and although I was being every bit as selfish as I was selfless,I wanted you to do this for yourself. Not for me, because I knew you were worth it and I needed you to know that too.
- I'm not giving up on you.”
― Cyrus Parker, DROPKICKromance