How It Ends Quotes

“I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“Where is home?
Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.
Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“All you really have...is now.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“He shook his head and gave this laugh, a good laugh, and just looked at me. "You always this happy?"

"No," I said, laughing. "It's you. Every time I see you, I just...I don't know. You make me smile.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“After school I all but ran to Gran's and it was funny how even with her so sick, being with her could still make me feel safe.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“I would not willingly peel back the scar tissue protecting the deepest chambers of my heart and reveal the bruised hollows pooled with the blood of old wounds – the terror comes just thinking about it – but now, facing darkness I am left with no choice.
I love you, and because of that am going to try and raise the dead. – Louise Bell Closson, How It Ends”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“It happened painfully and without warning, this sudden turning of the heart.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“I hope someone will be lost without me someday.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“So I wait for him because I always have, because out of all the moments that went wrong, I think there were just as many that went right, just as much love and heat and want as hurt, disappointment, and cruelty. I want to believe there's a balance here, that out of this tragedy will come some good, and there will be a happy ending.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“In a world where everything could be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, it was too incredible to think that this could not.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends