To Drink Coffee with a Ghost Quotes

“you were never the point to my story. i am.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“no one has to understand what we are as long as we do. - we’re the only thing that matters.”
― Amanda Lovelace, to drink coffee with a ghost (things that h

“you belong to nobody except yourself.”
― Amanda Lovelace, to drink coffee with a ghost (things that h

“Your
comfort
is not
more
important
than
my journey
to healing.
- I will never live a life of quiet again.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“For the first time, I will allow myself to believe that the best can & will happen to me, instead of the worst.
- life doesn't have to be a horror show.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“I can
no longer
focus on
everything
I've lost.
No matter
how many times
I hit replay,
I can't change anything.
I vow to focus
on whatever else
the universe
has in store
for me.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“you cannot have a funeral for your mother without also having a funeral for yourself."- it's time to begin the procession.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“i walk the thin line between nostalgia & trauma, never fully knowing the difference."- maybe there is none.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“I'm not helpless.
Truth is, I never was.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“You cannot have a funeral
for your mother
without also
having a funeral
for yourself.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“your mother taught you to hate your body, - family heirloom.”
― Amanda Lovelace, to drink coffee with a ghost (things that h

“you never know what you’ll be allowed to bring with you into the unknown. - what if it’s nothing?”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“some things don’t come alive until we believe in them with our whole hearts.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“I just remember waking up one day & deciding that I would try to remember that even though rainstorms are completely unavoidable, sun-showers exist, too.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“I wonder what you would say if you saw me now. You were the one who passed on, but I'm the one who forgot what it was to live. I barely sleep & all the flesh is falling off my bones& my books-all my beloved books- are coated in inches of dust, unread. Here I am, somehow managing to be more haunted house than girl.
- ghost-daughter”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“One minute, you were here; the next, you had already gone. Now I'm terrified to leave a room without saying goodbye to everyone inside of it first.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“inside the drywall, i imagine years of collected stories & laughter burrowed like chestnuts from stowaway squirrels. my secrets are hidden among them, too—the ones you expertly ignored so you could still look at me & see the perfect daughter who never existed.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“what do we do with all the things we need to say to someone we’ll never see again? - maybe that’s why i write.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“When life gives us new beginnings, we need to take them, because there are never enough of them.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“Grief will
never truly be
done with you.
When
you're ready,
take it in your hands
like a paintbrush.
like a charcoal.
like a pen.
Turn it
into a thing that
could hang in museums.
- masterpiece”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“They do not pretend to deserve me; better yet, they do not even pretend that they can save me. They do not view me as a broken, feathered thing they can mend up if they scoop me into their hands and show me enough attention. In time, they know that I will stretch across the skies again, but not before I'm ready.
- not before I mend my own wing.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“You carried
your demons
& you tried
your best to
shoulder
mine, too.
Yours were
just
too heavy
a burden
to take on
the load.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“Whenever it feels like your world is crashing down all around you, the sun will always be there to warm you between the wrath of the storm.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“I always believed that if I was able to make them stay, they would make me forget every bad thing that ever happened to me. They always told me that they would rescue me from myself & I was foolish enough to believe them.
- bittersweet”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“I cannot fight my way through these fucking shadows on my own.
- no light, no sun.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“Without you,
I'm not quite sure
who the fuck
I'm supposed to be.
- dependent”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“She learned
that dead moms
were not just
a thing that
happened to
characters
in her favorite
fairy tales.
it happened to
girls like her, too.
but the
difference was
there was no
omniscient narrator
to teach her how
to navigate it.
- the cracked compass.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“For months,
I dream that
you aren't
really dead-
that
they made
some sort
of horrible
mistake
by
declaring
you dead &
turning you
to ash
&
you get to
come back
home now.
- it feels more like a nightmare.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“I wish
I had known
I was never
going to
see you again
because I would have
spent more time
clinging to the good
we did have
instead of
clinging to the bad
I couldn't
change.
- what eats me alive.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“It wasn't long
before I realized
I could never be
who you always
wanted me
to be.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost