L > L's Quotes

“I love you and your broken wings.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“For a moment, I’m speechless.
It’s the first time in three years anyone has ever met me without that look of pity on their face. The first time anyone has ever looked at me and not seen me. The first time anyone has stood before me – with perfectly normal legs – and complained about their own problem.
The feeling is exhilarating.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I’ve always been able to write much better than I can talk.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“But the unknown is something to look forward to.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Stare at this boy who can’t possibly be real—stare at this stubborn, patient, kind, obnoxiously optimistic boy. Stare at this boy I can’t imagine life without.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I feel my heart exploding. I feel the space between our faces disappear. We kiss. And it tastes like sunlight.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Weston slowly averts his gaze to the ground. He lets go of me and murmurs, “You can see, now, Tessa. What do you see?”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I feel like every beautiful thing in me has rotted and turned ugly. I’ve become things that I never wanted to become—things that I hate with every fiber of my being.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“The universe was good because he was in it.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Can I hold your hand?" he asked.
I put mine in his.
"The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to."
"I'm here.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“This stubborn, kind, impertinent, obnoxiously optimistic boy is doing something to me.
And it feels good.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Pain shot through my body like a mortar round. Suddenly wide awake - and cussing like a Marine into the carpet under my mouth.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Sunlight is exuberant. Thunderstorms are passionate. Two extremes, and so much better than nothing at all. Cloudy skies are like nothing at all. Apathetic. Numb. The feeling you feel when you have no idea what you feel. When everything has gone so wrong, it no longer feels wrong. There suddenly is no right or wrong. There’s just emptiness. It would be better for the clouds to cry, or better for the sun to shine. But curse this bearing wall where the sky is nothing at all.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight