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By Way of Accident QUOTES

By Way of Accident QUOTES

1 " Words are great, but even I can admit they have certain short-comings. No word can ever give justice to a smile from a man who never smiled or to an old woman who gives up her seat on the bus to a soldier who lost his leg. And I’m still convinced there’s no word out there for the feeling you get the first time you ever hit home plate or bury your first dog or muster up enough courage to tell a girl you love her. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident

2 " The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident

3 " Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident

4 " But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it’s been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded—that’s how I feel about her. She wasn’t there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident

5 " A part of me will probably always be waitin’ for her. And even when I get to the end of this life and she’s not there, I think I’ll still just wait. It’s the cruel reality of love, I think—that once you find it, it’s yours to carry. And even if you lose it and never find it back again, I think you still just keep on carrying it...and waitin’—long after the curtain closes. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident

6 " We’re all livin’ in the past...we’re really always eighty milliseconds behind life happenin’. ...that’s how long it takes our brains to comprehend what’s already taken place right in front of our eyes. So, I guess I’m not alone. Everyone’s livin’ in the past, to some extent. I’ve just become a prisoner of mine. ... I’ve become a prisoner—willingly. But then I guess you really can’t be called a prisoner if you willingly carry the chains. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident

7 " Just remember, the single most important thing in this world is love. You find it, you fight for it. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident

8 " Brooke was always my summer. She’ll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident

9 " I have to know if you believe in second chances—because I do, even if they do come with good-byes. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident

10 " We get used to pretty...eventually, we get used to sunsets and falling stars and things that sparkle. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident

11 " There once was a river, who came upon a brook, And with all his strength, His current was no match for the brook For the brook hid her strength in her gentle touch, Carving her memory slowly over time into his, Making her path so etched in that fate dared him to forget That the brook who once changed the river’s course... Will always hold his heart And that time would only strengthen What the river already knew— he would never be the same without her. And to think a little brook could overtake a river so... "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident