“Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Today, my life is awesome.
I don’t want to think about tomorrow.
Or the day after that.
So I repeat to myself: Today, my life is awesome.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Don't judge each other. We all have our own shit. Keep your eyes on yours and your nose out of everyone else's unless you're invited in. And when you get the invitation, help, don't judge.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Just when you think you know someone, they change. Or you change. Or maybe you both change. And that changes everything.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I’m not saying you shouldn’t pursue dreams and goals. Just don’t forsake the present for the unknowns of the future. A lot of happiness is bypassed, overlooked, postponed to a time years from now that may never come. Don’t bide your time and miss out on this moment for a tomorrow with no guarantee.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I know that you’re sad right now. Grieve, but don’t hold onto it. Grief smothers out life. Let it go. Remember me and be happy. You have an incredible life ahead of you. Make the most of every minute. Starting right now.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I've always been pretty good at accepting the whole of someone, the good with the bad. I see it all, but try not to let it cloud my judgement. People are complicated. Life is complicated.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I love you more than you could possibly imagine.”
"My imagination is endless,”
“Good. So is my love.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“SOME PEOPLE EXCEL IN THE ART OF HUGGING. THEY SOMEHOW MANAGE TO HUG YOU WITH THEIR WHOLE BEING, NOT JUST THEIR ARMS. THEIR WARMTH SURROUNDS EVERY INCH OF YOU. IT MAKES YOU FEEL CHERISHED AND COMFORTED.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“You do epic like no one else.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“We all have to fight to make the most of the life we're given.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Imagine for a moment that you were free of all the expectations in your life. What would you do? How would you live your life with no one watching? What would your future look like?”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Your body is a temple. You don’t shit on the temple.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“She’s the poster child for positivity. She’s a freaking ray of sunshine. She doesn’t just look on the bright side … she lives there.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I’m doomed. Guitar players just do it for me.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“You’re an amazing woman … a terrible influence, but an amazing woman.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I would've missed out on some of the best moments of my life if I weren't spontaneous. Honestly, I try not to think about the future too much. I'm a huge fan of the present.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Oh, fuck it. Yes, I'm in love with her. I honestly can't remember a time that I wasn't.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Smiles aren’t always happy, but hers is. It’s open, content, and confident.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“He says what’s on his mind and he doesn’t hold back. Life would be so much easier if everyone were that way.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I feel like I’ve been asleep for years and I’ve only just woken up.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“My life will not follow a fairy tale, and that's okay. My life is reality. And in my reality people don't fall in love and get married and live happily ever after, because life is complicated. And messy.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“think I just fell in love with butterflies.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Fancy hides a lot, while simple unapologetically puts it out there for everyone to see.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I've given up on life. Or life's given up on me. Either way I'm done." And then his voice hitches and quiets. "Finish me.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“You give me courage I never knew I had.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
Kim Holden
Born place: in Denver CO, The United States
Born date October 14, 1972
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“First I need to do something.’ He pulled me closer towards him until our lips were almost touching.
‘What might that be?’ I managed to stutter, closing my eyes, anticipating the warmth of his lips against mine. But the kiss didn’t come. I opened my eyes. Alex had jumped to his feet.
‘Swim,’ he said, grinning at me. ‘Come on.’
‘Swim?’ I pouted, unable to hide my disappointment that he wanted to swim rather than make out with me.
Alex pulled his T-shirt off in one swift move. My eyes fell straightaway to his chest – which was tanned, smooth and ripped with muscle, and which, when you studied it as I had done, in detail, you discovered wasn’t a six-pack but actually a twelve-pack.
My eyes flitted to the shadowed hollows where his hips disappeared into his shorts, causing a flutter in parts of my body that up until three weeks ago had been flutter-dormant. Alex’s hands dropped to his shorts and he started undoing his belt.
I reassessed the swimming option. I could definitely do swimming.
He shrugged off his shorts, but before I could catch an eyeful of anything, he was off, jogging towards the water. I paused for a nanosecond, weighing up my embarrassment at stripping naked over my desire to follow him. With a deep breath, I tore off my dress then kicked off my underwear and started running towards the sea, praying Nate wasn’t doing a fly-by.
The water was warm and flat as a bath. I could see Alex in the distance, his skin gleaming in the now inky moonlight. When I got close to him, his hand snaked under the water, wrapped round my waist and pulled me towards him. I didn’t resist because I’d forgotten in that instant how to swim. And then he kissed me and I prayed silently and fervently that he took my shudder to be the effect of the water.
I tried sticking myself onto him like a barnacle, but eventually Alex managed to pull himself free, holding my wrists in his hand so I couldn’t reattach. His resolve was as solid as a nuclear bunker’s walls. Alex had said there were always chinks. But I couldn’t seem to find the one in his armour. He swam two long strokes away from me. I trod water and stayed where I was, feeling confused, glad that the night was dark enough to hide my expression.
‘I’m just trying to protect your honour,’ he said, guessing it anyway.
I groaned and rolled my eyes. When was he going to understand that I was happy for him to protect every other part of me, just not my honour?”
― Sarah Alderson, quote from Losing Lila
“No, not one shall be forgotten who was great in the world. But each was great in his own way, and each in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, quote from Fear and Trembling
“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, quote from The Gift
“An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.”
― Alberto Moravia, quote from Contempt
“The truth is there is no Devil making you torture, rape, murder, and sodomize one another, or making you destroy the very land that feeds you. There is only you.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
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