A Photo Finish Quotes

“Touch her, and I’ll kill you.” Cole’s voice is downright arctic.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“He reminds me of a solar eclipse—and I know you’re not supposed to look at those. It’s dangerous.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“Nothing good can come from this kind of forced proximity.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“I know you see yourself as dark. But you aren’t. You’re swirling color, all different shades, a mosaic. You’re complicated and beautiful. And I’m not quitting on you, so you better not quit on me.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“Her body still haunts me.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“Because I don’t want to live in the dark anymore.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“She’s like sunshine on my face. Warm and bright. I feel like I’ve been living in the shade, in a dark corner, and rather than dragging me kicking and screaming out of it—like so many people have tried to—she’s just shifted over a little bit to share her light.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“I think you’re doing the best you can with the shit hand life dealt you. Just like the rest of us.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“Don’t pick a man who needs fixing—or changing—to meet your needs. He either wants to, or he doesn’t. And if you need to convince him, he doesn’t love you the way you deserve.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“What do you want me to tell you? I never open up to anyone. You think everything between us just started and finished with a photo for me? Like it was easy for me to lose you? To not know if you were okay? To miss you so much it physically hurt? You broke me!”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“I’ve established myself as unapproachable before, and it really doesn’t take long to accomplish if you offend people thoroughly enough.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“I know you see yourself as dark. But you aren’t. You’re swirling color, all different shades, a mosaic. You’re complicated and beautiful.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“More tears fall. I hear murmurs around us, but I don’t care. I can’t look away from his silvery moonlit eyes. He thinks he’s dark. I think he just shines differently. The way the moon illuminates the world at night, soft and subtle. He doesn’t shine, he glows. Especially when he looks at me the way he is right now. And the thought that I could be the one to make this man glow?”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“And you shine bright. Bright enough that a man like that might need you to light his way.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“Violet is living, and fuck, does it look good on her. It makes me want to live too. To stop being such a hermit. To take risks, make friends, maybe even leave a vitamin bottle on the counter now and then—because who the fuck cares if everything is in perfect order all the time? Life is messy, something I know well. But when did I decide that the solution to that was to stop living?”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“He thinks he’s dark. I think he just shines differently. The way the moon illuminates the world at night, soft and subtle. He doesn’t shine, he glows. Especially when he looks at me the way he is right now.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“Once a horse girl, always a horse girl.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“don’t hate horses.” Pippy snorts and bats her eyelashes at him. Another one down, apparently. “Okay. You said you don’t like horses.” “Yup.” He grunts as he turns his back on me and crouches down to line up two boards. “But I like you.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“I heard nothing!” he calls back a little too brightly as he heads upstairs. “And even if I did, I’m all for women taking charge of their sexuality!”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“I don’t want to live in the dark anymore.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“What are you doing?” One hand on his hip, he holds the drill up to me like I’ve just asked the most obvious question in the world. “Building a shelter.” My brow wrinkles as I hear him confirm what Billie and Mira guessed. “I thought you hated horses?” “I don’t hate horses.” Pippy snorts and bats her eyelashes at him. Another one down, apparently. “Okay. You said you don’t like horses.” “Yup.” He grunts as he turns his back on me and crouches down to line up two boards. “But I like you.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“I should tell her she’s so much more. The thing that got me out of bed most mornings. My bright spot. My sunshine.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“You fell in love with that woman’s drive. Her passion. Her spark for life. Her light. What if, rather than throwing that all away, you became her suncatcher? Take that light and amplify it in every way you can. Bask in it. How wondrous to have found it!” She claps her hands excitedly. “But light is tricky. It slips through your fingers. It’s fleeting. It comes and goes. We never get to possess it; you can’t hold it in your hand. We just get to enjoy it. And if you can figure out a way to just let go and enjoy it, well, Cole, you’ll be one of the lucky ones.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“No one is taking his side, Violet. I just know you’re strong. And yeah, that man might fill out a T-shirt like it was painted onto him, and he could probably bench press me, but he’s in pain. It’s written all over him—even before you guys had your little spat. I diagnose animals who don’t talk for a living. He’s basically the same thing. Trust me.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“Touch her, and I’ll kill you.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“Hey, big bro! You taking a nap? I know you’re old, but this is a bit much.” If I pretend that Billie Black isn’t here, will she disappear?”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“You don’t look at me like I’m tragic. You look at me like we’re inevitable.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“Every touch, every look, every gentle word, it’s like a slow-motion reel that won’t stop playing through my mind. I’m so far gone, it’s not even funny.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“Even though she’s so fucking beautiful that it hurts.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“movement is a gift, freedom that we can never take for granted. Your body, no matter the shape or size, is a workhorse that does incredible things for you.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish