“I love that picture, he admitted softly. I think it's because I love the girl in that picture.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“Love helped me live life instead of just survive it.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“In the balance of love and loss, it was love that made me struggle to… Breathe.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“We were engaged in a very intricate dance of touching without touching, knowing without saying, and feeling without expressing. We were friends walking along a ledge, a very thin ledge - and I was too caught up in my heightened awareness of his existence to realize how close the ledge was to crumbling beneath my feet.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“Well let’s get you back to hell before the devil realizes you’re not home.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“My world was delicately balanced, but the scales never hung even. When something improved, something else had to crumble.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“And just because you didn’t admit it, you were stupid for each other from almost day one. So even though you’ve been dating for a couple of weeks, you’ve been each other’s person for a lot longer. - Sara”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“I knew there was going to be pain whether I did anything wrong or not – so maybe I should do something to actually deserve it.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“Now I was left holding the pieces of my heart, crushed by my own hands.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“I survived by keeping my emotions in check – by maintaining my composure and tucking it all away. I managed to stay under the radar, skating through school without anyone truly remembering I was here. My teachers acknowledged my academic successes and my coaches depended upon my athletic abilities, but I wasn’t important enough to make a recognizable social contribution. I was easily forgettable. That’s what I counted on.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“I guess you just don't pay attention. I think you're too busy attempting to fade.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“I trusted you," Evan bellowed, as the distance grew between us. I stopped and turned back around. He walked towards me until we were only a foot apart. "I trusted you, and you couldn't trust me."
I stared back, watching the hurt reveal itself in his eyes. My heart ached in return.
"I unpacked for the first time ever - for you. I was honest with you about everything-even with the truth about how I felt about you. I've never been that honest before. I trusted you." His voice drifted into a whisper as he leaned closer to me. "Why couldn't you trust me?”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“He leaned toward me and delicately grazed my lips with his. The tease left me breathless, burning for more.
“I keep having to remind myself that I can do that,” he smirked.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“These past two days, I’ve seen a fire in your eyes that I never have before. Granted, it’s mostly anger and frustration, but it’s still emotion.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“It's beautiful," I breathed, admiring the powerful emotion and truth frozen in the single shot.
"I love that picture," he admitted softly. "I think it's because I love the girl in that picture.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“What was that about? His mother is practically gushing over you. Not to mention that he’s holding your hand like it’s the most natural thing in the world. Forget about dating - are you having a wedding you forgot to invite me to?”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“In the balance of love and loss, it was love that made me struggle to… Breathe.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“What if I don't want to be friends with you?" he challenged, grinning again, staring directly into my eyes. Obviously taking me seriously was an impossibility for Evan.
Despite not being able to breathe, I connected with his taunting gaze and refused to look away. "Then we won't be friends," I said flatly.
"What if I want to be more than friends?”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“There are so many other people in this school-you don't have to know me."
"But I want to," he replied with a grin.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“I don't know how to fit you in my world without hurting you too." The truth in my words revealed more than he'd ever know.
"Don't worry about hurting me," he replied calmly. "I like being a part of your world, and I understand that it's more complicated than you're willing to share with me. But I'll respect that, for now."
He pulled into the parking lot of a drugstore and put the car in park. Evan seemed nervous as he turned to speak to ne. He released a quick breath before he spoke. My chest tightened, afraid to hear what he had to say."
"I don't do this." His hands gestured between us. My eyes narrowed, trying to inerpret his meaning. He exhaled and looked out the windshield. "I don't stay, and I'm used to that. And I'm always prepared to leave-because I have to eventually.
He stopped again, frustrated with himself. I sat motionless, absolutely convinced I didn't want him to continue - but I couldn't bring myself to ask him to stop.
"I want to stay here," he finally decalred. "It would bother me if I left. I mean, I've already unpacked.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“I pushed him away. So he left.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“Was it better to get as much out of the moment as possible, knowing it could slip out from under you in a second? Was the actual experience better than the inevitable conclusion?”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“Are you worried you'd miss me if I left?”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“He didn’t need to touch me. His attention alone, recognizing my existence, send a flurry of sparks through my body.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“I couldn't believe I let him see me like this, unable to fend for myself. I fumed in disgust at my vulnerability. I didn't want Evan to think I needed protecting. I pulled back my torment and let the numb blanket envelop me, pushing away the stirred memories, the noise of the crowd, and the trembling that still lay beneath the surface. I stared at the flames licking at the darkness and everything was lost as I sank deeper into nothingness.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
“Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn’t do it,” Evan declared, sliding under the covers next to me.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Reason to Breathe
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“I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.”
― Dean Karnazes, quote from Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
“When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from Across the River and into the Trees
“see the strength of the blue lines in front of them. But it was”
― Jeff Shaara, quote from The Last Full Measure
“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's body, your wife's dream of love, your own dream of life when you were sixteen. Exchange your illusions for a bit of truth. Throw out your politicians and diplomats! Take your destiny into your own hands and build your life on rock. Forget about your neighbor and look inside yourself! Your neighbor, too, will be grateful. Tell you're fellow workers all over the world that you're no longer willing to work for death but only for life. Instead of flocking to executions and shouting hurrah, hurrah, make a law for the protection of human life and its blessings. Such a law will be part of the granite foundation your house rests on. Protect your small children's love against the assaults of lascivious, frustrated men and women. Stop the mouth of the malignant old maid; expose her publicly or send her to a reform school instead of young people who are longing for love. Don;t try to outdo your exploiter in exploitation if you have a chance to become a boss. Throw away your swallowtails and top hat, and stop applying for a license to embrace your woman. Join forces with your kind in all countries; they are like you, for better or worse. Let your child grow up as nature (or 'God') intended. Don't try to improve on nature. Learn to understand it and protect it. Go to the library instead of the prize fight, go to foreign countries rather than to Coney Island. And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice inside you that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don't entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.”
― Wilhelm Reich, quote from Listen, Little Man!
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
― Seneca, quote from On the Shortness of Life
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