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When We Collided QUOTES

When We Collided QUOTES

1 " You can ache for where you come from, and it's homesickness. A relationship, and it's heartbreak. But is there a word for missing your friends like that? "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

2 " I'm looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

3 " My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

4 " I know this feeling of being a ghost in your own life - no one sees you, no one feels you, so you stay still as if you could actually disappear at any moment. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

5 " I don't appreciated how often people hide their scars and doubts. Really, it's not fair to people who are struggling, to go on believing that everyone else just has it totally together and never has one bad thought in their lives. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

6 " So far away, but so beautiful. So powerful. I can always feel it tugging at me. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

7 " My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it. Jonah Daniels has his own grief, but he doesn't understand what it feels like to waste away in a castle dungeon where you have been chained to crumbling walls. And, when the dragons close in, you only think: Good. Let this be over. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

8 " A rigid old tree like me--it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

9 " Even the constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

10 " That's the thing they never tell you about love stories: just because one ends, that doesn't mean it failed. A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone. And exchanging the truest parts of yourself--all the things you are--with someone? What a slice of life. One I'll carry with me into every single someday. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

11 " I keep wondering if it'll ever hurt less. This...this hole in our lives." "Oh, I imagine it'll hurt less eventually. I think there will always be a hole, though. But lace is one of the most beautiful fabrics, you know. All those holes and gaps, but it's still complete somehow- still lovely. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

12 " No matter what heaven you believe in, your time on this earth will end. What I’m saying is that you should listen—really listen—to the slosh of the waves and the distant call of Pacific birds. You should feel a boy’s pulse against your cheek; you should fill your lungs with ocean air. While you can, I mean. You should do these things while you still can. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

13 " Maybe we were dying planets, Jonah, being drawn into the darkness.” I hold my right palm against his cheek, and I wish I could touch him with both my hands. “When we collided, we bounced each other back into orbit. And now we have to do that—we have to return to our own paths because that’s what we gave each other. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

14 " But the point is that trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too. The point is I'm trying to create good things in the midst of the bad. Grief or no grief. And in my case, it's still somewhere in between. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

15 " I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need. Most of the things I do in life are for flavor, not necessity "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

16 " Maybe in my next life, I'll be a wave in the ocean, and you'll be a mountain, and we'll spend years and years brushing up against each other. You'll shift so painfully slowly, and some days I'll crash right into you and other days I'll approach gently, licking your sides. That sounds like us, doesn't it? "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

17 " I'm looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.." -Page 81 "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

18 " My cheeks are wet, but oh, my heart—it is so full. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

19 " Viv, I just made you wild-caught Alaskan salmon baked with mango chutney, on a bed of garlic red potatoes and arugula. While talking about an Audrey Hepburn movie. I think you are maybe falling in love with me. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided

20 " That's the thing about love stories: Just because one ends, that doesn't mean it failed. A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone. And exchanging the truest parts of yourself - all the things you are - with someone? What a slice of life. One I'll carry with me into every single someday.
I lie down in the cool grass beside him as planets collide above us and we stay like this for a long time, down to every last crumb. My cheeks are wet, but oh, my heart - it is so full. "

― Emery Lord , When We Collided