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Swear on This Life QUOTES

Swear on This Life QUOTES

1 " They projected an illusion of warmth with their home-cooking and hand-stitched quilts, yet underneath the facade was an institutional rigidity, as if they were running an orphanage where children would be fed and cared for but never loved. Love was such a key ingredient in molding humans, yet it was inaccessible to kids inside of the system. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

2 " We can't always control our circumstances, who are parents are, where we live, or how much money we make, but in those rare moments when we can shape our fate, when we do have the power to make our own happiness, we can't be too scared to do it. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

3 " We can’t always control our circumstances, who our parents are, where we live, or how much money we make, but in those rare moments when we can shape our fate, when we do have the power to make our own happiness, we can’t be too scared to do it. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

4 " It’s like reading a good book. The kind where you don’t want to skip pages to see what happens at the end. Each moment is a story in itself. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

5 " Isn’t it weird that we had nothing at the time … but somehow it felt like we had everything. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

6 " It’s impossible to really hate someone if you don’t love them at least a little. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

7 " In real life we have a hard time recognizing serendipitous moments because we’re not making the story up as we go along. It’s not a lie—it’s really happening to us, and we have no idea how it will end. Some of us will look back on our lives and recall events that were a bit too perfect, but until you know the whole story, it’s impossible to see the universe at work, or even admit that there is something bigger than us, making sure everything that should happen does happen. If you can surrender to the idea that there might be a plan, instead of reducing every magical moment to a coincidence, then love will find you. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

8 " I thought loving someone meant letting go, but by the time I learned that loving someone means fighting for them too, it was too late. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

9 " For my Em. Don’t wait this long. Come let me love you. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

10 " This could be the best thing for us, after it stops being the worst. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

11 " Our story is great. Maybe not all the other shit, but the story of us is perfect, Em. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

12 " We can’t go backward. There are too many regrets. Please just move forward with me? "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

13 " Having a bunch of shitty adults constantly letting you down really kills a kid's view of the world. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

14 " the past would only fester and eat away at us if we tried to hold on to it too tightly. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

15 " I love you, Emiline. I loved you before I even knew what it meant. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

16 " Jason Dean Colbertson, how’d you get so great?” There was silence. He kept his eyes closed and said, “You made me this way, Em. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

17 " You’re my best friend.” I said to him.
“I’m so in love with you.” His eyes were pleading. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

18 " You’re all I have left. You’re holding my whole world together, Em. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

19 " There was nothing we could do; we were just a couple of powerless, poor kids, so desperate to find a way to be together. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life

20 " Come let me love you. "

― Renee Carlino , Swear on This Life