This Life and All the Rest Quotes

“I’m always going to be an addict, and she’s always going to be my greatest temptation. The only addiction worth ruining myself for.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“So, you like watercolors because they’re beautiful, difficult to master, and unforgiving?”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“The heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of another's fire.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“I thought I could fix him, but it turns out, he just needed me out of the way. He grew up, got clean, and made a life, all without me.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“You don’t want to erase your mistakes. You want to transform them into something beautiful.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“I’m an addict, Astraea. I don’t know how to do anything small. I feel intensely. I want intensely. I crave intensely. For me, if it’s not a healthy obsession, it’s not love.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“The heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of another's”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“To rock bottom, the journey back to the top, and growth.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“My left side wasn’t unlucky. It was just waiting for Lennon. She heals my hurts. She strengthens me. I’m so stupidly in love with her.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“I never gave up on us,” he breathes out. “Even after you did, I didn’t. Because you belong with me, Lennon Capri. You always have and you always will.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“I fucking went to rehab for us,” he says, his voice shaking. “So I could love you right.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“Carson McCullers quote.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“I’m done sacrificing myself for someone who wouldn’t do the same for me. I’ll never make that mistake again.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“He was the boy who broke me, and I was the girl who let him, because I thought I could fix him.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“This life. The next life. Every life after that. I will love you in all of them, Lennon Capri. It doesn’t matter who you become or how you change. My soul will always belong to yours.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“It’s my painting.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest