Powerless Quotes

“Times have changed, Sloane. I’m not scared anymore. You’re not my fucking friend. You’re just mine.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Don’t you get it, Jas? I’ve seen all the darkest parts of you and I’m still here. I still want more. Stop trying to scare me away. It isn’t going to work.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“No, Sunny. I shouldn’t be scared. You’re the least scary thing in my life. You’re not just tattooed on my skin. You’re branded on my heart. Woven into the fiber of my being. The most constant and reassuring person in my life. When I close my eyes, I see you. When you’re away from me, I dream about you. When I need someone to lean on, you are always there for me. God. You’ve loved me when I haven’t even been able to love myself.” My hands squeeze her cheeks and tears seep out over them. But she’s smiling up at me like I hung the moon.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“The answer is no. None of that shit matters. Because we’re me and you. We’re us. Unlikely and inevitable all at once. We’re forever.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“See, Sloane? You can wear someone else’s ring, but we both know you’ve always been mine.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Nah, Sunny. You’re my only girl.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“For too long, I was a soft, demure little dove. And then they burned me. Scorched me. Turns out I’m a dragon and I’m fed the fuck up with boys and their bullshit.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Sunny, you’re gonna make me lose my mind.” “Good,” I murmur against his mouth. “We’ll be insane together. I’m so tired of doing it alone.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“We’re often blind to the people we love the most.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“I love you, Sloane Winthrop. I always have. I love you so damn hard I don’t even know what to do with it. You’re my person. And I think I’m yours too.” “You have always been my person,” she chokes out. “I love you so much.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“He’s constantly trying to blend into the background, but even when he’s hiding, I see him.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“You’re not just tattooed on my skin. You’re branded on my heart. Woven into the fiber of my being. The most constant and reassuring person in my life. When I close my eyes, I see you. When you’re away from me, I dream about you. When I need someone to lean on, you are always there for me. God. You’ve loved me when I haven’t even been able to love myself.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“None of that shit matters. Because we’re me and you. We’re us. Unlikely and inevitable all at once. We’re forever.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“It’s like she and I are tethered together, but she’s the strong one. The pillar. And when troubled waters wash me downstream, all I have to do is follow the rope that ties me back to her. It always leads me back to her.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Jasper: I don’t like talking to people. Sloane: You talk to me. Jasper: You’re not people. Sloane: Lmao. What am I then? Jasper: My person.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Instead, I snap. I point at the floor beneath my feet and say, “Lose that fucking ring and crawl.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Harvey: Two rooms or one? ;) Jasper: Don’t be weird. One room, two beds. Harvey: I’m not weird. You’re the one with a crush on your cousin. Jasper: She’s not my cousin. Harvey: Ha! But you didn’t deny the crush.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“But as usual, she doesn’t shy away from my darkness—after all, she’s my Sunny. She chases away the dark just by being herself.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Do you love her?” I stare at Harvey, trying to work it all out in my head like I have been for days. “Of course, I love her. I’ve always loved her.” “Did you tell her that?” A stone drops in my stomach. “No.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Oh my god, Jasper! Fucking say something!” “I feel like I could crumble under the weight of not wanting to disappoint you. I’m paralyzed by my fear of losing you.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“What did it mean?” “That when it comes to you, I’m powerless.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“The real question is, do any of those other people matter when I only ever see you? When I only ever think about you? When I’ve done nothing but become more and more obsessed with you since I was told to stay away from you?
Do they, Sloane? Do they matter? Does any of that seem like it matters on the face of what you and I have happening right now? In the face of eighteen years of friendship? In the face of wanting each other for so long? Is a single other person even a factor? Even a blip on the radar?”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“For the ones who’ve spent their lives being just a little
*too* agreeable.
Here’s to getting comfortable disappointing other people
to avoid disappointing yourself.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“I don’t know how I went so long without you. I never want to go without you again.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“I feel like I could crumble under the weight of not wanting to disappoint you. I’m paralyzed by my fear of losing you.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Because no matter what else is going on in the world, everything is better with her in my arms.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“I’m going to get comfortable disappointing other people to avoid disappointing myself.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Cade: Want to come over for a delicious home-cooked meal tonight? Would love to see you! Jasper: Why are you talking all weird like that? Cade: Like what? Jasper: Nevermind. I’ll ask Sloane. Cade: Are you guys banging yet? Jasper: Jesus, Willa. Give Cade his phone back.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Two weeks off hockey compared to a few days without Sloane proved two things to me: I can live without hockey but I can't live without Sloane.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Jasper: Is there a way out at the other end of the hallway? Cade: There’s an emergency exit. Rhett: Fuuuuucckk. Are you breaking our cousin out of her shitty, stuffy wedding? Jasper: Yes. Come up with a distraction and text me when it’s safe for us to run. Rhett: Can I pull the fire alarm? Cade: I will come up with something. Rhett: I’ve always wanted to pull the fire alarm. Cade: You did. I had to wait for your dumb ass after school while you finished detention for weeks. Jasper: Guys? Cade: Willa has a plan. That might actually be worse. But when I say go . . . go. You need to run.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless