Maryam Shahid

“What do you think she’ll be like? she whispered, after a moment.

“Who?” I said gently, holding her to my chest.

“The girl you’ll meet after me. Your soulmate.”

My heart shattered into a million pieces.

If you had asked me yesterday, I would have said it was her. Instead she’d end up being the one who got away. Not a soulmate, just the love of my life.

And unfortunately they’re not the same thing.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“I want you to know that your empathy is beautiful, Emma. I hope you never lose that. I do hope that one day you get some boundaries though.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Unhealed trauma is a crack. And all the little hard things that trickle into it that would have rolled off someone else, settle. Then when life gets cold, that crack gets bigger, longer, deeper. It makes new breaks.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“This is the thing nobody tells you about The One. How they’re timeless. How the moment they pop up again you’re right back in it, right where you left off.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer