Eleanor & Grey Quotes

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“I know how overwhelming parties can be for you. So, I made you a reading nook. You know, so you could escape if you needed to.” He made me a reading nook… He made me a reading nook! Goodbye heart. You now belong to Greyson East.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“„I've never read Harry Potter,” he said, and for the first time in my life, I felt bad for Greyson East.

What a sad, sad life he lived.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“He read your favorite series?” “Yup.” “Eleanor?” “Yes?” “Marry this boy.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Maybe all people needed sometimes was for someone to keep showing up for them during the hard days, even when they tried their best to push everyone away.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Nothing in life is personal, not really. Some people will love you for who you are today, others will hate you for it, and none of their opinions matter either way—not the good or the bad. Only you can define who you are. No one else has that right.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“People didn’t have to talk about love to know it existed. Love wasn’t only real because someone said it out loud. No, love just kind of sat there quietly, in the shadows of the night, healing the cracks that lived in our hearts.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“The best kind of love is the kind that fills one up completely, leaving reassurance, not doubts. You deserve that. You deserve to be someone’s whole.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Sometimes the best love stories are about those who waited.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Everything I knew about life, I learned from Harry Potter.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“I tossed n my headphones, not because I was listening to anything, but because people tended to leave you alone if you had headphones on. It was a great introvert hack: look busy to avoid human interaction.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Being human is weird.
I'd much rather be an alien.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Then I closed my eyes, felt the light breeze against my skin, and was thankful because somehow, my mother was magic. Somehow, she had been able to cheat death. Even though her physical form was gone, I felt her spirit sweep across me every single day. Whenever I asked for her help, she never hesitated to show me the way. Some people called it signs, others called it blessings, but I simply called it my mother’s kisses. She guided me through the darkness while promising there’d be light at the end. So no matter what happened, I knew everything would be okay. Because a mother’s love is enough to surpass time and space. A mother’s love never vanishes. A mother’s love can always heal her daughter’s heart with simple kisses in the wind.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“I love you. I love everything about you, even the parts that you think are too sad to be loved. I think those parts are the most beautiful. I think all parts of you are perfect, and I just wanted you to know that you are the first person I’ve ever loved, and it’s easy to do it. It’s so easy to love you.”
Tears rolled down my cheeks and I smiled because I knew. “I love you, too, Greyson. Every single part of you.”
How could I not? He was him, and I was me, and we were us.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“It blew my mind how a mother could be the strongest person in a room, even at her weakest.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“It was easy for me to not feel beautiful in a world of prom queens, yet my mother was always reminding me of how worthy I was. I was a lucky daughter”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Because making her happy was his favorite activity”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Just because someone is different doesn't make them weird”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“But everything would be okay, because we were going to fight it. We were going to fight it together. And we were going to win.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Be sad. Happy can come later.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Something should be said about the people who show up for the depressed souls. They never receive enough credit for being brave enough to stay.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Wearing makeup doesn't make you a girl. Were you wearing makeup when you first met him?
No..
Then there's no need to wear it now, unless you want to. Do things for you, Ellie, never for others. He obviously liked you just the way you were.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“How long will I be sad?” He shrugged his shoulders before he combed my hair behind my ears. “For as long as it takes. There’s no rush to be happy, that will come when it’s ready.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” -Fred Rogers”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“We were still broken, and cracked, and growing and learning. We were mistakes and perfection, flowing streams and hurricanes.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Grey?” “Yes?” “Would it be all right if I kept you forever?”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“You are my heartbeats. You are my masterpiece. In a way, I feel as if I cheated death, because I get to live on within you, in your smile, in your laugh, in your heart. I’m there for it all, Eleanor. I’m eternal because of you. So please, do all the things. Take risks. Find adventures. Keep living for me and know that it has been the greatest honor being your mother. I am so lucky to have loved you.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Sadness didn’t come with words; it ran across a person’s body. It swam in the eyes. It swept across the wrinkles in one’s forehead. It pushed down shoulders and sat uncomfortably at the corners of lips. No human ever had to speak of their sadness for it to be seen. Others just had to take the time to truly notice someone to see it. All we truly had to do was slow down and look.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“Some things are worth the risk.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey

“A book alone isn't always enough to get people to ignore you, but a book and headphones? Well, you might as well be a ghost.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey