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To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2) QUOTES

To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2) QUOTES

1 " I wish
I had known
I was never
going to
see you again
because I would have
spent more time
clinging to the good
we did have
instead of
clinging to the bad
I couldn't
change. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

2 " no one has to understand what we are as long as we do. - we’re the only thing that matters. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

3 " you were never the point to my story. i am. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

4 " you belong to nobody except yourself. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

5 " Your
comfort
is not
more
important
than
my journey
to healing.
- I will never live a life of quiet again. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

6 " I can
no longer
focus on
everything
I've lost.
No matter
how many times
I hit replay,
I can't change anything.
I vow to focus
on whatever else
the universe
has in store
for me. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

7 " For the first time, I will allow myself to believe that the best can & will happen to me, instead of the worst.
- life doesn't have to be a horror show. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

8 " you cannot have a funeral for your mother without also having a funeral for yourself."- it's time to begin the procession. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

9 " You cannot have a funeral
for your mother
without also
having a funeral
for yourself. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

10 " your mother taught you to hate your body, - family heirloom. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

11 " One minute, you were here; the next, you had already gone. Now I'm terrified to leave a room without saying goodbye to everyone inside of it first. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

12 " I wonder what you would say if you saw me now. You were the one who passed on, but I'm the one who forgot what it was to live. I barely sleep & all the flesh is falling off my bones& my books-all my beloved books- are coated in inches of dust, unread. Here I am, somehow managing to be more haunted house than girl.
- ghost-daughter "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

13 " I just remember waking up one day & deciding that I would try to remember that even though rainstorms are completely unavoidable, sun-showers exist, too. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

14 " I'm not helpless.
Truth is, I never was. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

15 " some things don’t come alive until we believe in them with our whole hearts. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

16 " i walk the thin line between nostalgia & trauma, never fully knowing the difference."- maybe there is none. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

17 " It wasn't long
before I realized
I could never be
who you always
wanted me
to be. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

18 " I wish
I had known
I was never
going to
see you again
because I would have
spent more time
clinging to the good
we did have
instead of
clinging to the bad
I couldn't
change.
- what eats me alive. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

19 " For months,
I dream that
you aren't
really dead-
that
they made
some sort
of horrible
mistake
by
declaring
you dead &
turning you
to ash
&
you get to
come back
home now.
- it feels more like a nightmare. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)

20 " She learned
that dead moms
were not just
a thing that
happened to
characters
in her favorite
fairy tales.
it happened to
girls like her, too.
but the
difference was
there was no
omniscient narrator
to teach her how
to navigate it.
- the cracked compass. "

― Amanda Lovelace , To Drink Coffee with a Ghost (Things that Haunt, #2)