The Falling in Love Montage Quotes

“History is who we are,” I say finally. “The past shapes us. Even the parts you can’t remember.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“See, the thing about the falling in love montage," she said, her voice hoarse, "is that when it's over, the characters have fallen in love.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“That was one of the hardest things about breaking up. It's not a pair of bookends, the beginning and the end... It's all the things we used to do that we'd never do again and all the things we'd never do for the first time together.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Just because something doesn't last forever doesn't mean it isn't meaningful”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“How about life's too short to be second-guessing yourself the whole way? You can only go with what you feel right now and if you feel like it might make you happy, even for a while, jump in with both feet, girl, and get wet.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I don’t believe there’s one right person for everyone, and I spent fifty-one years with the same woman. But I do believe there’s a right person for you at different times in your life. Whether that relationship lasts a week or fifty years is not what makes it special.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Was this what being straight was like? A boy in your bedroom making a mess? Not for the first time, I thanked God I was a lesbian.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“If you truly love someone, if they were ever important to you, it doesn't disappear. What it looks like might change, but that's only the surface”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I wanted to tell her how much I liked her, how I felt this tugging feeling in my stomach that drew me close to her, but I couldn’t let the words out of my mouth because it felt like unleashing something I couldn’t control.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Maybe that’s what a relationship means, carrying a part of someone around for the rest of your life.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I like having something that can't ever change. It's already happened.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I forgot what it was like to be kissed by someone who might want more than a kiss. I knew then that Ruby was definitely not experimenting. I should have been scared. I should have left the room. I should never have gone upstairs with a girl who made me wobble.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Nothing good starts with I hope you'll be happy for me. The phrase is loaded with the unsaid ending because you won't be happy for yourself.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“She flipped her hair over to the opposite side. My stomach flipped over to its opposite side.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Love didn't just disappear did it? Mine didn't. It wasn't some light I could switch on and off. It was something that had grown inside me, its roots tangled around all the organs of my body.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Relationships change and the past isn’t some static thing you could keep forever like a photograph. No one else seems to understand that. Just because something happened, it doesn’t mean it will mean the same thing to you forever. It changes with you.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“When you truly love someone, it doesn't go away,”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I'm just. A girl. Standing in front. Of another girl, asking her. To please accept. This grand. Gesture. As an apology for being an absolute gobshite.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“In fact, a whole ex-girlfriend themed ghost train sounded genuinely terrifying. You'd get in and instead of a mummy mannequin covered in toilet roll popping out, it's her and you look down and you're wearing a baggy old jumper with a stain on the front. You turn the corner and you find yourself being forced to scroll through her Instagram and there are replies from a girl with tattoos and she looks exactly like the celebrity your ex fancies most. Right at the end, they play a video on a loop that's just screenshots of all the pathetic texts you sent when you were too heartbroken to have any dignity.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I thought about how amazing it was that this moment would exist forever. Perfect and unchanged. A moment where I always be madly in love with Ruby Quinn.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Was it possible to have your cake and then not be sad when your cake leaves you and smashes your heart into a mushy pulp?”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“The roller coaster here gives off the distinct aura of taking your life into your own hands, but I hear life-threatening circumstances bring people together, so why not?”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I don’t believe in love at first sight or soul mates or any of that guff you see in the movies. You know, where you meet someone in an impossibly coincidental way and you lock eyes and true, everlasting love ensues.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Instead of moving on, it felt like everything behind me was being wiped out, as though I had conjured it into being and when I wasn't looking it all disappeared.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“See, the thing about the falling in love montage,” she said, her voice hoarse, “is that when it’s over, the characters have fallen in love.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“That's how I was feeling too. Except when I started feeling that way it made me want to be close to you, to share things with you, not to pull away.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I love you. But I’m not in love with you.”
It’s such a cliché I didn’t even really know what it meant. How was in love different from love?”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“That was one of the hardest things about breaking up. It's not a pair of bookends, the beginning and the end. It's the unraveling of the future.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I heard a plea for absolution in those words. I saw it on his face. Tell me I'm not a terrible person.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I don’t want to forget what we had. Ever. In the past, we’re perfectly preserved, best friends, in love forever. I like that.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage