Drive Quotes

“Because music is the heart’s greatest librarian. A few notes had the ability to transport me back in time, and to the most painful of places. Take any song from the Rolodex of your life, and you can pin it to a memory.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“If anyone tells you a song is important to them, you should turn it up loud, close your eyes, and really listen . Because at the end, you will know that person so much better. Unknown”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Love doesn’t die, even when you stop feeding it. There is no expiration date on the ache of missing someone you shared your heart, life, and body with.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“That’s the thing about intimacy and truly knowing the person you’re with. They always know when something’s off, no matter how casually you try to sweep your unease away. They know. It’s their job, because in the song of your life, they are the ones listening. It’s when they stop that you need to worry. He’d listened to mine. He knew when a beat was missing, or a note was forgotten. He’d memorized my song, and I was his favorite.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Because music is the heart’s greatest librarian.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“You still want the fairytale, but it’s mine to give you, and I can’t give it to you if you’re with the wrong fucking prince.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“In love with two worthy kings, and I was queen of the damned.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Welcome to adulthood,” he said with a Cheshire grin. “It fucking sucks here.”
“God, please don’t ever volunteer for a suicide hotline,”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“I miss hearing your dreams when you wake up. I miss spending nights just talking in our bed. Simple shit I would never take for granted again, as long as I got to do it with you. You’re all I think about. I haven’t slept a full night since you left my bed.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“If I’m not what you need, then go find it. I bared myself to you, and you didn’t have the decency to fall in love with me. I probably will hate you. I fell for you, scared, but I did it anyway.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“I think about you every time I play. Every single day, I take you with me wherever I go.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Some people believe intuition is the sixth sense, a gift from the soul. And while I think that’s true, my theory goes a step further. Having your heart splintered heightens that sense. Because on instinct alone, you’re constantly looking for the pieces.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“A few notes had the ability to transport me back in time, and to the most painful of places. Take any song from the Rolodex of your life, and you can pin it to a memory.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“I think I’m falling in love with the king of nothing.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Always ask for more of a good thing, Stella. Never know when you’ll have it again.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Perfection is boring. It makes life boring, and love even more so.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Just remember when you’re yelling, you’re hurt. And whoever hurt you probably loves you just as much.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Tell me that life magically starts to happen.” “One minute past desperation, baby.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Living for a man is the quickest way to get lost. And the reality of coming up empty-handed when it doesn’t work out. Fuck that. It’s a nightmare.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“If anyone tells you a song is important to them, you should turn it up loud, close your eyes, and really listen. Because at the end, you will know that person so much better.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“And while his fingers explored, his eyes stayed on mine, filling the silence, and in them I saw the piece of me that he took.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Boo, listen. You can’t go beating up everyone that pisses you off. Use your words, I promise you they are much better weapons. But be careful with them because bruises heal.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Hey, YOU, the puker and the crier, I think you’re awesome. It’s not an easy task living with your heart on your sleeve. Your heartache might run deep, you might get what’s considered overly excited about things that light you up, you might be a little too passionate at times, but your big heart is the most amazing part of you. Please don’t change it for anyone, ever.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“I miss him. Why do I miss him? I’m right here, Stella.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Because music is the heart’s greatest librarian. A few notes had the ability to transport me back in time, and to the most painful of places. Take any song from the Rolodex of your life, and you can pin it to a memory. It translates, resonates, and there it will remain. And no matter how many of those Rolodex cards you want to rip out and burn like an old phone number to make room for new ones, those songs remain and threaten to repeat.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“I’m right here, Stella.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Don’t throw those fucking signals at me, Stella, or you’re going to find yourself on the right side of my bed.” “Why the right?” “Because I sleep on the left,” he said as he leaned in. “And you’ll sleep on the right. Every man needs a right girl.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“Look up, Stella.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“you thought you weren’t enough, but that was just it. You were enough to make me want to try to figure it out. You were enough to make me want to get better, feel better, and eventually want more. You saved every part of me. The parts I thought were empty, you filled up. The parts I thought were lost, you brought them back to me.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive

“It was always the music that hurt me most. It did the most damage. For every single day of my life, I had a song to coincide with it. Some days were repeats. Some days I woke up to the lyrics circling in my head. The lyrics sometimes set the tone for my day, and as a slave, I followed. But some songs were like a sharp fingernail poking into open-wounded thoughts. Because music is the heart’s greatest librarian. A few notes had the ability to transport me back in time, and to the most painful of places.”
― Kate Stewart, Drive