Quotes from A Thousand Letters

Staci Hart ·  282 pages

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“Braveness isn't always loud. Sometimes it's silent. There's braveness in sacrifice and kindness. It's in doing a thing that needs to be done, even though it's hard, and even though it hurts.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“There is no length to love; it's infinite. It lives in you always. Hold on to it.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“Life is short, so short, so precious, every minute, every day. Don't let the people you love, the people who make you happy, the people who bring you joy — don't let them go. Hang on to them, even when it hurts. When it seems impossible. Hold on to the things that breathe life into you. Listen to your soul and honor what it tells you. Live. Fight for what you love. Because one day, you'll be where I am, and in that moment I want you to look back gladly, with no regrets.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“There is no length to love; it's infinite. It lives in you always. Hold on to it." "But it hurts," she sobbed. "That's how you know it was real.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“Home is not a place, Not a smell, Not a face, But a space In your heart. -M. White”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters



“I found myself in the dark, found her in the dark. I found light and truth in the darkness, hiding there where I couldn't see, right in front of me the whole time. And all I had to do was reach out and touch her.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The saddest are these: It might have been!”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“To live
Is to feel
So you know
You are real.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“I could heal him, but he would ruin me. I would make that sacrifice without question, simply because he needed me, and I loved him.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“At the edge Of no more Is where we find Our truth.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters



“Sometimes it’s a flutter, a flicker of wings in your chest. Others, it’s a relentless vise that stops the beat, if only for a second. It might be a hot burn, spreading like wildfire in your ribs, or an icy cold space, empty and void. But the heart always reacts. Even after seven years, just hearing his name inspired any of those reactions or a dozen more. And there was one every single time.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“Well, you're a better person than I could ever hope to be." "Hey, I'm not the one married to one of them," I joked. "You, sir, have the patience of a saint." "Or the IQ of a carrot," he said with a smile.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“He loves you, and that love hurts him because he regrets everything.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“What is wrong with me? Why do I destroy the things I love?”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“I was a slave to my hope. But I couldn't hang on any longer. I watched as it slipped through my fingers, fading to a pinpoint of light.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters



“It's not that easy." "Sometimes it's exactly that easy.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“She glanced at me with a look that would have withered anyone else, but I went about my business, immune. They say that when you care, it gives them power. And she had no power over me.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“How did you survive as a kid? It's like a sheep in the wolf's den." "I had books. Lots and lots of books.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. -Anne Elliot, Jane Austen’s PERSUASION”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“You never stopped loving her" .....
..... "I don’t know how to stop”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters



“I’ve never understood why the heart always reacts. A shot of adrenaline is all it takes, triggered by a thought. A word. A memory. And every time the reaction is singular, a fingerprint of a moment. Sometimes it’s a flutter, a flicker of wings in your chest. Others, it’s a relentless vise that stops the beat, if only for a second. It might be a hot burn, spreading like wildfire in your ribs, or an icy cold space, empty and void. But the heart always reacts. Even after seven years, just hearing his name inspired any of those reactions or a dozen more. And”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“I’d become an expert at compartmentalizing my feelings. It was the only way I survived, by stacking up dusty boxes in my heart “for every hurt, packing them away in the dark.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“There is no length to love,
it's infinite.
It lives in you always.
Hold on to it.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“The pain on his face mirroring the pain in my heart.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“I said nothing as my heart broke again for the thousandth time, the porcelain pieces so small that I didn't know how I could keep putting it back together.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters



“I closed the book and closed my heart along with it.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“Home is not a place, Not a smell, Not a face, But a space In your heart.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“...it was easier to keep the truth to myself, because what could anyone else do? I carried the weight of my choices around with me always, and no one knew. No one needed to suffer along with me.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“Because I loved him, and that love destroyed me.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters


“Are you suggesting that I'm a doormat?”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters



About the author

Staci Hart
Born date May 29, 1980
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