The Judgment of Paris Quotes

“I continued hesitantly as I explained, “The world raised me to believe I needed every answer to every feeling, every resolution to every situation, and every decision about the future. But that’s not how life works. In fact, I’ve realized that overthinking life is what destroys it.” Somewhere between loving and losing, hurt and happiness, I’d finally let go of all the impossible standards I’d held myself to. “Living is about making mistakes. It’s about trusting the wrong people, and then forgiving them or forgiving yourself. It’s about believing the wrong things, doing the wrong things for the right reasons… it’s the only way to learn what’s important and what isn’t. And for a long time, I lived for what wasn’t important… I won’t do it anymore,” I swore softly.”
― Rebecca Sharp, The Judgment of Paris

“The worst battle you will fight, Troy, is between what you know and what you feel. And it’s always one where to win hurts greater than to lose… where doing what’s right hurts the most.”
― Rebecca Sharp, The Judgment of Paris

“I felt like my brain was going to explode, trying to process every sensation at once. Was I blinking? Was I breathing? Was I alive? I couldn’t tell anything except in relation to him.”
― Rebecca Sharp, The Judgment of Paris

“Love is something that strikes suddenly—like a blinding flash of lightning, like a storm hurled from the heavens into life, uprooting it, sweeping every other thought and emotion out of its way like dried leaves, engulfing everything in its path. Once it touches you, nothing is the same again.”
― Rebecca Sharp, The Judgment of Paris

“She was mine. Mine to worship and mine to ruin. Isn’t that what love means?”
― Rebecca Sharp, The Judgment of Paris