Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things Quotes

“Falling in love was easy. Learning how to love required some bumps and bruises along the way. If love just happened, like Wednesday, then it wasn’t really love.”
― Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things: A Charming YA Contemporary Romance About a Love Triangle and First Love

“I mean, if we knew precisely how hard trying something would be, we wouldn’t really be trying. We’d just be doing, which might be easier, but a lot less interesting.”
― Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things: A Charming YA Contemporary Romance About a Love Triangle and First Love

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words—Wait and Hope.”
― Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things: A Charming YA Contemporary Romance About a Love Triangle and First Love

“That’s the hardest thing about loving someone. You only get to choose how you love them, not how they love you back.”
― Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things: A Charming YA Contemporary Romance About a Love Triangle and First Love

“What if love wasn’t always a choice? What if it just happened? Like chickenpox, mildew, or Wednesday?”
― Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things: A Charming YA Contemporary Romance About a Love Triangle and First Love

“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.”
― Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things: A Charming YA Contemporary Romance About a Love Triangle and First Love

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”
― Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things: A Charming YA Contemporary Romance About a Love Triangle and First Love

“No one pretended potholes didn’t exist, or pockets, or spare rooms. So why did the heart’s empty spaces always have to be “cheered up”? Why did so many feelings have to be felt “in moderation”?”
― Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things: A Charming YA Contemporary Romance About a Love Triangle and First Love

“I envy my words once spoken, for they're closer to your ear, closer to your heart, than I am. They live, inked in your memory, when I'm absent. They tiptoe through your dreams when you sleep, and if you speak my words, they'll lie more softly on your lips, where I have yet to dwell. My words go where I cannot and I'll never forgive them for their trespasses.”
― Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things

“Edie's hand rose to her locker, turning her mind to hearts, strings, and other broken things.”
― Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things