Pen Pal Quotes

“Funny thing, isn’t it, hindsight? It’s memory, but with new understanding tacked on, so that the past means something different than it did before.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“I never lost you. Who do you think has been ringing the doorbell this whole time?”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“You’re the chaos. You’re the storm. You’re the one creating the high winds and choppy seas you have to navigate. You’re the source of everything that’s happening. In other words, you’re the one with the power.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“I learned that love means nothing unless it’s acted upon. Love isn’t real without intent. It’s a verb. It isn’t passive.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“Kayla, be careful with me.” Surprised by that, I ask, “What do you mean?” “I know you think I’m strong. But the problem with strong things is that they’re brittle. They can’t bend under stress. They just break.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“What we call memory is the intersection between imagination and fact. Memories are the stories we tell ourselves about the important events in our lives. In the telling, some details get lost, others embellished, until truth is closer to fiction.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“Fucking hell, you’re sweet. You’re so goddamn sweet, I just want to sink my teeth into every inch of you.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“Hell is a state of mind, my dear. Reality is simply what we believe it to be. Each of us makes our own truths, even ghosts.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“I was giving you space. Didn’t think it would turn into distance.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“Even small dragons can still breathe fire.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“love means nothing unless it’s acted upon. Love isn’t real without intent. It’s a verb. It isn’t passive. But most of all, love means sacrifice. Whatever love asks of you must be given, no matter the price.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“Hey, bunny,” he says softly, his eyes shining with adoration. “Did you miss me?”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“How naïve we are when we’re young. How easily we trust that the sun will keep rising and setting, warming our days. And what a terrible blow it is to discover it isn’t the sun that makes things bright, but the people who love us, so that when they’re gone, everything is plunged into darkness.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“I’ll wait forever if I have to.” That’s it. There’s nothing else, except a signature scratched below the words. Dante.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“It’s incredible how many different people one body can hold. We all walk around with a thousand strangers inside us, slumbering quietly until someone else wakes them up. Like the jolt of electricity that reanimated Frankenstein’s monster, all it takes for our sleeping giants to jump to life is a single spark.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“I really don’t understand men. Dealing with men is like dealing with a hostile alien species who crash-landed on the planet and decided our language and customs are too silly to be bothered with, and henceforth we should be treated with mild disdain and/or as objects of occasional sexual release before being ignored as inferior beings again.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“And exactly what is it you think I need, Aidan?” “To forget everything so you can remember who you are again.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“When someone dies, you start counting all the ways you failed them.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“We’re not introverts. We’re misanthropes. Big difference.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“a quote from Henry David Thoreau: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“The path to paradise begins in hell. ~ The Divine Comedy”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“I read somewhere that grief is more than an emotion. It’s a physical experience, too. All kinds of nasty stress chemicals get released into the bloodstream when a person is grieving. Fatigue, nausea, headaches, dizziness, food aversion, insomnia… The list of side-effects is long.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“Pain is the cost of love. And the deeper your love goes, so too goes the pain. You can never have one without the other.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“Don’t judge a book by its cover, lover boy. I know I look like the girl next door, but inside, I’m more like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“I’m gonna devour you, little bunny rabbit, piece by tasty piece. I’m going to eat. You. Up.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“It’s worth it. No matter how bad it can get, no matter if it all falls apart in the end, it’s worth every minute.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“It's easy to forget that everybody else has problems when you're so caught up in your own”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“Whatever love asks of you must be given, no matter the price. And I’d gladly give what love asked of me a thousand times over. Even if I had to do it every day until the end of eternity, I’d slice open my own veins with a razor blade and happily bleed myself dry.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“I wish you knew how perfect you are. How different and perfect. I’ve never met anyone like you. Whenever we’re together, I feel like a new man. A better man. Like everything bad that’s ever happened to me doesn’t matter anymore because your sweet smile takes it all away.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal