I Loved You in Another Life Quotes

“Silence and sadness are not the same things. And I wish more people understood that, is all.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“Things have a way of taking on the lives of those around them, so when someone in the house betrays you, it's a betrayal multiplied in perpetuity: your favorite book turns to drivel; coffee in space-related paraphernalia, undrinkable; couches, unsittable. And when the betrayer walks out the front door for the last time, you'll have to dig a tunnel under the house, or exit through the chimney, because fuck that door.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You In Another Life

“When I think of all the things through history that people have believed that ultimately proved untrue, it seems silly to think we know anything for sure now. But maybe that’s the human condition: we’ll believe in anything if it means believing in something.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“The word hug, as a verb, feels inherently lonely: you can hug someone who doesn't hug you back. But the same word as a noun implies mutual participation.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“With some songs, the scar is obvious even if the wound isn't.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“I’ve never understood people who are uncomfortable with silence, but I have to think they weren’t very comfortable in the first place. The absence of noise is the presence of mind, a body’s place to breathe.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“I stay where I am, waiting. Some storms come in waves. Some hit you hard and leave you wrecked in their wake. Too early to know which kind this one is.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“An absent dad who pays for everything is like a mathematician growing a tomato: tomatoes are great, but how about you solve for fucking x?”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“You hit a wall, though, don't you. Reach a point where you're as much a mess now as you'll ever be, so why stop?”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“Melancholy", she said. Sadness never sounded so lovely.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“(...) and even though I can't see her, I know she has that look in her eyes, the soft one, the one she saves for when she wants me to know I am seen.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life