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Holding You (Holding You, #1) QUOTES

Holding You (Holding You, #1) QUOTES

1 " I felt significantly insignificant, as if my presence in the world, albeit small, was still necessary. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

2 " I don’t need a paper certificate that makes it hard to leave; I need a love that makes it easy to stay. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

3 " Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

4 " Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.” ~George Carlin "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

5 " I don’t fear death, I fear the pieces of my heart could be further shattered and it will still be beating. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

6 " She’s beautiful, delightful, elegant, exquisite, charming, divine, captivating, gorgeous, stunning, bewitching, admirable, and a million other inadequate words. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

7 " Deep breath ... I am peaceful, I am strong. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

8 " My soul is injured. My heart is shattered but won’t stop beating. You see the person I want to be, not who I am. I don’t fear death. I fear the pieces of my heart could be further shattered and it will still keep beating. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

9 " There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ~Mahatma Gandhi "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

10 " Given my past, I was all too familiar with death. I’d suffered loss in the worst imaginable ways, and those experiences taught me that true emotions cannot be defined by words. With that in mind, I did not tell Quinn I was sorry for the passing of his father; words were inadequate, words hurt. They could cut through your heart, but they didn’t have the ability to heal. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

11 " His simple response made me think of all the times family and friends had tried to comfort me but failed so miserably. Their words of sympathy were suffocating, inadequate, and downright repulsive to me after a while. I refused to think something so awful was “meant to be” or “God’s plan.” No God I could ever imagine would be so cruel. Predestined didn’t coincide with free will. The truth for me was: shit happened, life was not a fairytale, and bad things happened to good people, end of story. My eyes filled with watery emotions, the flood "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

12 " Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” ~Ambrose Bierce "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

13 " His simple response made me think of all the times family and friends had tried to comfort me but failed so miserably. Their words of sympathy were suffocating, inadequate, and downright repulsive to me after a while. I refused to think something so awful was “meant to be” or “God’s plan.” No God I could ever imagine would be so cruel. Predestined didn’t coincide with free will. The truth for me was: shit happened, life was not a fairytale, and bad things happened to good people, end of story. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

14 " Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” ~Edna St. Vincent Millay "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

15 " Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” ~Katharine Hepburn "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

16 " I understand you better than anyone, which is why I don’t push you on this. Having said that, I also love you more than anyone, which is why it breaks my heart to know that happiness waits for you on the other side of the mountain. I don’t want to watch the pain you’d have to go through to make the climb, but I would love to see you alive and happy at the other side. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

17 " Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.” ~ George Carlin "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

18 " You’re like my favorite dessert.” I confessed. He looked up at me, confused, while he worked his magic on my sore feet. “I crave you constantly—borderline addiction—but I fear the consequences of overindulging.” I stuck with the food metaphor, it seemed safer than just handing him my heart. "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)

19 " Fate controls who walks into your life, but you decide who you let walk out, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.” ~ Unknown "

― Jewel E. Ann , Holding You (Holding You, #1)