This Is Not How It Ends Quotes

“In each loss there is a gain, As in every gain there is a loss, And with each ending comes a new beginning. —Buddhist Proverb”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Life throws shit at all of us, and it’s how we deal with it that defines who we are.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“When life throws a curveball, you have a decision. You can go on being angry and empty, or you can move toward peace. It’s living or dying. Choose the path that makes you feel alive.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“May you find the person who lights a fire in your soul and makes you want to be a better man. May you understand the sacrifices and compromises that make love complete. May you feel the pain of another, so much so that you learn true empathy and how to share it with others. May you hurt, may you laugh, may you cry, may you understand the rare beauty of giving your heart to another, the joy of sharing life with someone who is always by your side. It will make you physically ache, deliriously happy, but it will be worth every emotion.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Abandonment leaves a painful mark. It inks you for life, if you let it, making you believe you’re not worthy, leaving you distrustful of wishes and dreams, when they only disappoint.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“You don’t always have to physically go somewhere to experience something magical.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Forgiveness is the greatest act of love you can give another human being.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“I've heard it said that life is about choices. Paths stretch out ahead of us- sometimes, we make conscious decisions and other times, fate intervenes and chooses for us.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“People can surprise you, though most of them won't. Love is the precursor to hate.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Happiness wasn’t overrated. It was a gift meant to be cherished and held tight.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Forgiveness is the greatest act of love you can give another human being. With forgiveness comes the ability to fully love—yourself and others. And when I say love, I mean all that comes with it.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Don’t accept less than you deserve, Charlotte. Don’t let that fear you’ve locked in your heart keep you from something bigger .”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“being alone doesn’t make a person lonely. It’s being around the wrong people.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“We can't be the fairy tale, but might we be something better?”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“I was changing, but I thought we would change together. So how could I be upset with him for being who he always was?”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“He stood up, and the pull toward him caught me at once. I wished I were imagining it. I wished the space that surrounded him didn't call out to me like a palm against my skin.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Maybe there are people in the world who are meant to be alone. Maybe they touch lives for brief moments, intermittent connections with long-lasting effects. Maybe we’re meant to learn from goodbyes. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s all a bunch of nonsense that sounds good in theory but rips you apart, leaving everything broken.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Some people were put on this earth to do good, to be good. Liberty literally saved people. I think God had preserved her as a way of saying thanks.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“That’s the thing about betrayal. It’s convoluted and malleable, changing to fit an individual story. It doesn’t always mean you love one person more than another. For some, it means your heart is cracked in two.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“I could not, for the life of me, understand how a man could bring a child into the world and not know where they were or how they were feeling. I’ll never make sense of it.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Some pain we learn to live with. It becomes our armor.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Each of us felt loss, whether it was through a seed planted inside or one nearby that took root and grew. Loss didn’t discriminate, it was a game of chance. Like love. And sometimes even love led to isolation.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“I’ve read the body holds our misfortunes, that sensitivities are a combination of the physical and the emotional.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“I know, Jimmy, because . . . because my mom died . . . like yours . . . and I know she’s everywhere and nowhere. I don’t see her, but I swear to you, she’s out there.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“The book is always better. Endless imagination. We get to choose what we see . . . the people and places.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“No one ever talks about the end. How in days leading up to it, you beg a higher power to take your loved one away, to relieve them of their suffering. And then when they pass, you can’t imagine anything more horrible. The finality. The dissolution. It’s the great paradox, the ill-fated hypocrisy: In life we watch them suffer. In death it is we who suffer. There is no in-between.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“In each loss there is a gain, As in every gain there is a loss, And with each ending comes a new beginning. —Buddhist Proverb PART ONE”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Forgiveness is a gift. Life holds no guarantees. Happiness comes with risk.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“Abandonment leaves a painful mark. It inks you for life, if you let it, making you believe you’re not worthy, leaving you distrustful of wishes and dreams, when they only disappoint. Philip and I clung to that notion as long as we could, until it broke us.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends

“There comes that moment when you’re holding someone and the pieces of you just fit. Words are useless. The parts of you string together—souls touch through gentle fabric—and when you separate, you both know there’s a lingering strand that forever connects.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends