The Girl in the Love Song Quotes

“Change is hard in the beginning, messy in the middle, and beautiful at the end.”
― Emma Scott, The Girl in the Love Song

“The urge to protect one’s heart is the strongest urge of all. But it’s also impossible if you want to live a rich, full life.”
― Emma Scott, The Girl in the Love Song

“You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.”
― Emma Scott, The Girl in the Love Song

“Miller and I ebbed and flowed, but we always came back. Inevitable as the tide and beautiful in the end.”
― Emma Scott, The Girl in the Love Song

“Foster Wallace once said: You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― Emma Scott, The Girl in the Love Song

“How I crossed a boundary the night we met. How all the broken pieces of my life come together when I’m with her, even for a little while. How we’d been hanging out for months and every minute I tried to find the courage to tell her that this poor homeless kid with nothing to offer would die for her. I swallowed hard, swallowed down what I want to say, because I’m thirteen and I’m not supposed to love a girl like this. So soon. So completely.”
― Emma Scott, The Girl in the Love Song

“One who understands what it’s like to struggle so I can appreciate what I have even more.”
― Emma Scott, The Girl in the Love Song

“You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― Emma Scott, The Girl in the Love Song

“I want to marry you, Vi. I want to grow old with you. I want to celebrate wedding anniversaries with you that make people stand up and applaud when they hear the number. I want to tell people that you’re the love of my life and that I knew that was true because I met you when I was thirteen years old. And that was it. There was never going to be anyone else.”
― Emma Scott, The Girl in the Love Song

“I started to drive away, and I couldn’t do it. I can’t let you go to Los Angeles without you knowing that I love you. I’ve always loved you. Since we were thirteen and stupid and scared. Scared about how much I loved you. How deep it went.” She shook her head, deep-blue eyes shining. “Because it’s so deep, Miller. I can’t see the bottom.”
― Emma Scott, The Girl in the Love Song