A. Meredith Walters · 290 pages
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“I have learned that sometimes "sorry" is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“What is it?" I asked breathlessly.
"I love you so much. Sometimes it hurts."
"I don't want it to hurt, Clay. Our love should make you feel wonderful.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“I had wondered a million times how I could possibly go on living when my heart was gone? How was it possible that it still beat in my chest when it felt so empty?”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“When I asked him as to why he only drew the
butterflies he had kissed me softly on the mouth.
“Because you make me feel free.” He had
answered simply.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“The struggle is really hard sometimes. And then I meet you. And I feel stuff that I’ve never felt before. Things that I never thought I would be lucky enough to experience. And I feel so out of control in the way I am with you. Like I’m stripped bare and for once someone sees everything inside of me… the good and the really really ugly.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“Why are you interested in me?” He asked quietly. Hmm. How to answer that one? I didn’t want to tell him that I thought he was the most gorgeous creature I had ever seen and wanted to have his babies. That might be a little much.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“But the best relationship are built on friendship first.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“The most perfect memories are the ones too painful to forget.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“Hot damn. Cue the violins and happy cartoon bunnies. I was in the middle of a Disney moment. Because this guy was gorgeous. And we were standing so close to each other. If he hadn't been holding onto a barely contained rage directed at yours truly, it could have almost been construed as romantic.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“This is forever, Maggie. I would follow you into hell if I had to … You are all I want for the rest of my life.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“When you're in a room, Maggie, all I see is you. You make everything better. Clearer. You stop the crazy noise in my head. I can think, hell, I can breathe when we're together What you make me feel is the most unbelievable and scary thing I've ever felt.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“What I can see so far is that life consists of good and evil, black and white. And everything in between is a struggle for dominating the other. Life is a struggle.
And I hate that it all ends with nothingness. That one day, you simply aren’t here anymore. No more smiles, no more tears, no more anything.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“Sometimes, love can't make everything better, and the best thing for everyone is to walk away. No matter how much it may hurt.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“I needed Clay as much as he needed me. We existed in this symbiotic relationship where our hearts beat and our lungs breathed only for each other.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“I love you. You are my life.” He placed my hand over his heart. I could feel it beating erratically beneath my palm. “Feel that? It’s yours. For now and always!”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“You ran into my life, this beautiful, amazing girl who changed everything. I finally saw what my world could be. What being normal and happy could look like. You’ve given me everything I never thought I could have! It scares to me think of life without you. Of not seeing your smile or hearing your voice.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“I was this sad and lonely creature before you came along. And then, just being with you, knowing you love me, had transformed me. My entire life has become this metamorphosis into something beautiful, something happy. I told you before that you've freed me. You've reminded me of what it means to believe and hope.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“I wanted to feel what it was like to kiss you for the first time without being sucked into a medicated fog.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“It's amazing how something that had, in concept, seemed so insignificant to my life could not become my entire world.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“Maggie. When we make love, I want it to be special. Not some quickie in your bedroom before your parents come home. I want more than that for us. I want to be able to hold you all night and feel you against me as I fall asleep. I want us to be perfect together.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“All I could see was my life without you in it. And it was a fucking dark and horrible place.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“You are everything. To me you’re the world.” I whispered against his mouth.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“I don't deserve your heart, Maggie. I should never have drug you into this hell I live in. It's not fair to you. What kind of future can I give you when I don't know if I even have one?”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“Just promise to talk to me … I can help you with that baggage, you know.” What was I saying? I had never dealt with anyone’s baggage! I didn’t even know what it was!”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“I’m mad at Maggie for giving me something that nearly killed me to lose when I invariably fucked everything up. For showing me what perfect looked like right before I destroyed it. I’m angry as hell because she built back up what I had broken, she gave me everything; a life, a future. And now it’s gone.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“God, Maggie.” He whispered, leaning forward, capturing my mouth with his. “I love you more than anything. With everything that I am.” He answered me. Okay, I was done for.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“I realised that despite the hangups, despite the crazy drama he created, I would love him always. Clay was mine just as surely as I was his. My life and his were inexplicably intertwined and there was no denying the intense connection we shared.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“I've been staying after school getting help in trig from Laura Johnson. Shit, it's just school work. And it's fucking Laura, granny panties, Johnson! It's not like I've been secretly banging her as she whispers math problems in my ear or something.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves,”
― Caitlin Doughty, quote from Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“I don’t want to make peace with it! All I’ve ever wanted was to know her. And the only things I have to remember her by are these stupid stories! The stories that killed her.”
― A.G. Howard, quote from Untamed
“It was as if the past, till then so longed after, so lived over, had slipped off my shoulders like a burden. The future was still hidden, somewhere in the lights that made a yellow blur in the sky beyond the end of the dark street. Here between the two I waited, and for the first time saw both clearly.... I had made myself a stranger in England, not only bereaved, but miserably dépaysée, drifting with no clear aim, resenting the life I had been thrust into with such tragic brutality; I had refused to adapt myself to it and make myself a place there, behaving like the spoiled child who, because he cannot have the best cake, refuses to eat at all. I had waited for life to offer itself back to me on the old terms. Well, it wasn't going to.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from Nine Coaches Waiting
“Reality is a curious thing. Truth is not as solid and universal as any of us would like it to be; selfishness guides perception, and perception invites justification. The physical image in the mirror, if not pleasing, can be altered by the mere brush of fingers through hair. And so it is true that we can manipulate our own reality. We can persuade, even deceive. We can make others view us in dishonest ways. We can hide selfishness with charity, make a craving for acceptance into magnanimity, and amplify our smile to coerce a hesitant lover. The world is illusion, and often delusion, as victors write the histories and the children who die quietly under the stamp of a triumphant army never really existed. The robber baron becomes philanthropist in the final analysis, by bequeathing only that for which he had no more use. The king who sends young men and women to die becomes beneficent with the kiss of a baby. Every problem becomes a problem of perception to those who understand that reality, in reality, is what you make reality to be. This”
― R.A. Salvatore, quote from Road of the Patriarch
“Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, 'Let me cross over,' the men of Gilead asked him, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he replied, 'No,' they said, 'All right, say Shibboleth.' If he said, 'Sibboleth,' because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Fourty-thousand were killed at the time.
- Judges 12:4-6”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from The Farming of Bones
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