You shouldn’t imagine things that you haven’t a shred of proof happened…
Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.
The person who completes your life, is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather, the person who made your life worth living — no matter how long or short a time you are given to spend with them.
It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.
Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don’t even have it. You can’t wish for control you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.
That’s what we did, didn’t we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.
We were both shattered. We were broken people who longed to be whole. We thought it was love that was driving us to do what we did. But it wasn’t love. It was fear. We were both too afraid of ending up unwanted and unneeded.
We’re going to be okay. Lainey isn’t the glue that keeps us together. We are. We’re the glue. Okay?
Please don’t let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.
Oh, but it’s our tears that make us human, Isabel.
Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell'” she said reading aloud the store’s tagline at the top of the form.. “I love that.
The past hadn’t been erased just because a new future had been handed it.
Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?