The Things We Leave Unfinished Quotes

“Life is too short to miss the lightning strike and too long to live it alone.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Sometimes the only way to keep what you need is to let go of what you want.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Tragedy has a way of breaking gentle things and soldering the shattered pieces together in ways we can't control. Some, it remakes into stronger, more resilient creatures. In others, the pieces fuse before they heal, leaving only razor-sharp edges. I can offer you no other explanation or excuse for the way she's cut you over the years.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Sometimes I wonder if I just enjoy the beginnings, and that's why I never seem to move past them. The beginnings are what make everything romantic.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Our fates are intertwined, for I cannot exist in a world where you do not.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“This is not our end. My heart will always remain with you no matter where we are. Time and distance are only inconveniences to a love like ours. Whether it’s days, months, or even years, I will be waiting. WE will be waiting.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Perhaps the kindest thing I could do for the characters would be to leave their stories unfinished. Leave them with their possibilities, their potential, even if they only exist in my own mind.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“There’s a warning, a sound your heart makes the first time it realizes it’s no longer safe with the person you trusted.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“I see the way he looks at her, like she’s the reason the seasons change and the sun rises until they’re a hundred and one years old.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Personally, I think she liked living there, between the pages with him. Always adding little bits of memory but never closing the door.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“You are the culmination of every lightning strike and twist of fate.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“I will wait for you every second, every hour, every day for the rest of my life, and if that’s not enough, then eternity, which is exactly how long I’ll love you,”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“I love you, Scarlett, and it’s not the kind of love that fades with distance or time. I’m yours and have been since the first time I looked into your eyes. I’ll be yours no matter how much time passes before I see your eyes again. Always.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Without the potential for disaster, would we ever really know what we have?”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“when a story is finished, no matter what kind it is, the possibilities are gone. It is what it is, or it was whatever it was.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Howard, tell Scarlett I love her.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“My heart will always remain with you no matter where we are.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Romance isn’t about unrealistic expectations and sex. It’s about love and overcoming adversity through what can be considered a universal experience.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Grief is a powerful, illogical emotion, and some memories are safer left boarded up and undisturbed.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“maybe it’s really the possibilities that are easy to fall in love with. Looking at any situation, any relationship, any story, and having the sublime ability to wonder where it will take us is a bit intoxicating, really.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“You fight and you thrash because this fated, deep-rooted thing you called love refuses to go down with a single shot. That would be far too merciful. Real love has to be choked out, held under the water until it stops kicking. That's the only way to kill it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“I love you more than all the stars in the sky,”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“I felt my heart break into a million pieces as I watched you leave, and yet every tiny shard of that broken heart still loves you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“We need more Darcys in the world,” I answered with a little shrug. “Says the woman with a thing for Hemingway.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“You are the culmination of every lightning strike and twist of fate. Do not settle for the love that hones your edges and turns you bitter and cold, Georgia. Not when there are so many other kinds of love waiting for you. And don't wait like I did, wasting 17 years, because I'd left one bitter foot in my past. We're all entitled to our mistakes. When you recognize them for what they are, don't live there. Life is too short to miss the lightning strike, and too long to live it alone.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Tragedy has a way of breaking gentle things and soldering the shattered pieces together in ways we can’t control. Some, it remakes into stronger, more resilient creatures. In others, the pieces fuse before they heal, leaving only razor-sharp edges.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“We’re all entitled to our mistakes. When you recognize them for what they are, don’t live there. Life is too short to miss the lightning strike and too long to live it alone.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“There's a warning, a sound your heart makes the first time it realizes its no longer safe with the person you trusted... It's not as clean or impersonal as a break or a shatter. Besides, those are easy to repair if you can find all the pieces. Truly crushing a soul - now that requires a certain level of... personal violence. Your ears fill with this desperate - rasping - gasp. Like you're fighting for air, suffocating in plain sight. Strangled by life and someone else's shitty, selfish decisions.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Don’t take it away,” Scarlett whispered, her throat aching with all the words she wouldn’t let herself say. “What?” “My hope.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“I wish I could keep you safe as well. Our lives have turned out so very differently than we planned. I wish you were with me, that we had taken this journey together. You have been my compass all these years, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to find my way without you, but as I promised this morning as we said our goodbyes, I will do my best. I carry you with me in my heart, always.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished