Unloved Quotes

“The gist of it was, if you lie, you must remember your lies. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to keep track of your words.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“Sometimes my sadness and my anger still feel as hard as ice; that's how I saw them for a long time, in fact. Sadness and anger, an infinitely wide, infinitely thick casing of frost around my heart. Many days, I didn't know how my heart kept beating. And there were days, I'm ashamed to admit now, I just wished it would stop.
But it kept throbbing with life, like it knew that someday the ice would melt. I both dread and welcome the idea of that day. Loving someone new will hold such immeasurable risk for me- how could I bear losing someone all over again?- but living like this for the rest of my life? In a constant state of grief? It's the only thought more unbearable than moving on. Because this isn't living. This is barely existing.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“I had someone in the crowd that night who had a name, who was dearly loved. Those of us who survived are the walking wounded. Or the walking dead.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“my words are like the sun and Cassidy is like a sunflower after ten straight days of rain.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“I want to say something to make it all better as we walk in silence towards the parking garage, but nothing can take back my thoughtless words, and besides, I don't really want to whitewash the way I feel.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“When she touched my face so tenderly, placing her hand on my cheek, part of me wanted to die...because I knew my life would never get any sweeter than it was in that moment.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“[This] beautiful girl asleep on my chest, her ear over my heart, needs me right now. So I hold her close and let me eyes shut as the sun lowers over “the greatest mountain.”
I don’t really know her.
I don’t have any right to her.
I shouldn’t get attached to her.
In a handful of days she will be gone.
But right now, there is simply nowhere else on earth I’d rather be.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“And the world stops spinning. And all the oxygen made by every tree in that forest is sucked away, leaving me light-headed. Because I have never seen such a beautiful woman in my life. Not in real life, when I was little. Not in books. Nowhere.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“Some stories have really bad endings.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“I wish I was the sun so I could shine down on her, so I could examine every peak and valley of her face until I have it memorized and can recall it at any lonesome moment: the sad, beautiful, green-eyed girl from the forest.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“Anyone with half a brain loves romance novels, and the rest are lying.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“I will love her until the sky falls.
Until the sun and moon fail to rise.
Until Katahdin crumbles.
I will love her forever.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“Deep inside, something that had almost given up on life knows for sure that it’s completely, vibrantly alive again, and my heart laughs because I barely remember happiness like this, but it’s here, and it’s now, and it’s Cassidy holding me in his arms and kissing me for the first time.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved