The Plus One Quotes

“I'm not looking to fix you," she said, staring straight into his eyes. "I'm here to love you.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“You’re allowed to be broken,” she said, taking his hands and kissing his knuckles. “And you’re allowed to be repaired. I love every piece of you and however they fit together.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“Then she smiled back, and it, ever so slightly, tipped Jude’s world upside down”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“You can hurt and also be loved. You can feel sadness and also laugh and feel joy. Good emotions can coexist with hard ones. You can struggle and suffer and learn to heal while you also love.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“and he was getting really good at not feeling anything most of the time. Except for when he felt everything.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“Maturity is a social construct upheld by the patriarchy with an incredibly narrow, white, cis, neurotypical scope to enforce conformity and then implemented as an othering and shaming tactic for anyone that steps outside of that paradigm.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“We preserve worlds of what could have been. Worlds of what-ifs. It's easy to get trapped there.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“She looked back-- his safe soul. His happy place. His tether.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“Dira, I want to tell the world I'm with you. It's the way I want to introduce myself to everyone I meet.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“He'd been writing love on every inch of her heart since they were kids, and he'd found the most beautiful, messy, ridiculous reminder of that and put it in a frame.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“She was a dream and a nightmare and Jude couldn't believe he was lucky enough to have her in his room.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“He wanted to stay in her arms forever.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“Memories of you are inevitable,” she said at last.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“You can hurt and also be loved. You can feel sadness and also laugh and feel joy. Good emotions can coexist with hard ones. You can struggle and suffer and learn to heal while you also love. The best place to start is by giving yourself permission to feel with abandon. Feel everything.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“Therapy is scary because it requires you to be brave. It’s one of the most radical forms of self-love.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“The problem with being self-aware and introspective while also being, admittedly, emotionally damaged was that Indira could reason through her feelings and their source and how they didn’t serve her, but she also couldn’t stop the ruminating circles of feeling them.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“Happiness was soft. Uneventful. It was holding Indira's hand. Sitting next to her on the couch and listening to her talk. It was a quiet cup of coffee with her next to him reading a magazine.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“He was drowning in loss for the memories they could never make.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“I always felt like this raw nerve. Everything touched me. Every feeling hit me with an overwhelming force.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“Was being roasted her love language? What the hell was this?”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“Even when you were little, you cared about everyone. Everything. I imagine it's hard to stop something that's in your nature.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“As an adult, she still had a dangerous notebook-buying habit, but rarely took the time to fill them.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“You want to be my friend?' Jude repeated, a bit too earnestly.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“She looked calm. Soft. Steady. She looked like everything.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One

“She wanted to talk about the ache that never went away. The hole in her heart that no one seemed able to fill.”
― Mazey Eddings, The Plus One