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Lia Louis QUOTES

1 " Do you know why I like storms? They're a little reminder that we're not at all in charge, but Mother Nature is. And while the world might not look exactly how we'd prefer it to, it is enough, if we just stop and look. The whole sky lit up. The smell of the rain. Safe inside. What more could you need? "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

2 " Hubble: "We don't always get to say goodbye. Sometimes you'll be holding the balloon, and it's pulled from you. Or you drop it, without realising until it's too late. And it's gone. That's it. You can't get it back. But if you're the one that lets it go, then you should count yourself lucky. You get to prepare, you get to say goodbye. You get to close the book. "

― Lia Louis , Somewhere Close to Happy

3 " Rosie has made dinner for later, a curry that smells like coconuts, something she said her dad makes when she's run down or sad.
"It works. I give less of a shit once I've got a bowl of this baby. My nan's works the best though. Fuck knows what she puts in hers. Men's souls probably, and rightly so. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

4 " I felt nothing really, other than the smallest pangs at the sight of my old bedroom window. But that was it. Just a building. Just a window. Just a shell in which people make home with things and people. A shell which goes back to being just that when those things are removed. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

5 " Maybe home isn’t a place. It’s a feeling. Of being cared for and understood. Of being loved. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

6 " I know, deep down, I am made of strong stuff. Rebuilt with it, at least, the way we all are over the years, with age and experience. Skin thickening, heart softening, patched up double in the places prone to breaking. A sum of all the things that have hurt us, scared us, sheltered, and delighted us. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

7 " What is it about someone asking if you're okay? Even if you think you're holding it together, all it takes is someone asking is if you're alright to completely melt away your resolve and bring that lump bobbing straight into your throat. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

8 " The only sort of negative emotion I feel is slightly sad, but it isn’t a jealous sort of sad, it’s that end of era feeling; the sort of feeling you have when you’re leaving a job and you know so much that it’s for the best, but you’ll miss it. The familiarity. The routine of it. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

9 " Big things, I hope, might happen someday, but it’s the little things that are important, isn’t it? They keep us grounded. The little things are the things we miss the most when normality is turned on its head. "

― Lia Louis , Eight Perfect Hours

10 " The dream, surely,’ I said. ‘Someone loving you despite and because of all the flaws and shit in your life. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

11 " It’s all just – life, isn’t it? Disordered and chaotic and out-of-nowhere, and we have to plan and navigate our way around it as best we can. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

12 " Even in the darkest of times, it is always important to focus, if you can, on the positives. No matter how small. No matter how few. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

13 " Because everyone is settled at thirty, aren’t they? You’re an adult at thirty – fully fledged – and everyone knows who they are. Or at least everyone knows exactly where they are going, even if they haven’t quite made it there yet. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

14 " I’m thirty years old, and it’s safe to say that at this precise moment I definitely do not know where I am going. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

15 " and sitting here in the sunshine on the beach with the both "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

16 " My life has started. I’m in it. It’s not something I’m waiting for any more. I’m here. And whatever I wanted for my life, was it this?’ Was it this? "

― Lia Louis , Eight Perfect Hours

17 " I look down at my wet jeans, the old, squelching sandals, the towel around me, and bring a knuckle to my eye, crusted with dry-again mascara. "God. Look at me," I say, voice cracking. "Just look at me."
Eliot stares at me. And softly, into the silence of the car, he says, "I am. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

18 " An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle. But it will never break. "

― Lia Louis , Eight Perfect Hours

19 " I'm made of strong stuff," I say, and Lucas says, "Always have been. "

― Lia Louis , Dear Emmie Blue

20 " It is the idea of him that I'm sure I'm in love with and I'm ready to let that idea go. "

― Lia Louis