“If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to keep getting what you're getting. You want change, make some.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, "No, we don't use this heart anymore. It's too fragile.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Imagination was a gift I kept in my front pocket.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Happiness was getting stuck with someone and never feeling stuck.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“No one talked about the questions, because talking ruined plausible deniability. Talking burst the bubble of innocence. Talking ended the happily ever after. These were the truths they believed. And they were lies. They should have talked while there was still something to say.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Maybe forgiveness was giving the past less power to hurt me. Or even building new memories that were stronger than the painful ones.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Nature, at its strongest, shaved off mountaintops or threw houses into the air, but it couldn't was away pain. Everything had limitations.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Posse ad ease --from possibility to actuality”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Sometimes a hand is an anchor. His held me to the world.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“It's been a year. It's been a really hard year without you. Losing you felt like jumping off the bridge and forgetting which way was up. I don't think I'll ever be over it, but I'm starting to find my way through it. Mom said when a person dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get through it by remembering. I've been remembering everything lately.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Sometimes the journey to let someone love you is the journey to loving yourself.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“We wrecked more than the car.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Forgiveness (n.) releasing the toxins of bitterness.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“It started with the crash. I held on to all these emotions and truths that I should have expressed, but I didn't know how to say what I needed to say. I thought that would ruin us. Well, silence ruined us too.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“If you weren't there, and I weren't here... If I weren't me... but you were still you, I would be interested in letting you like-like me.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“He always had bread crumbs in his voice, and I followed them like a fairy tale.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Then, somehow, you have to accept that you're still here, and that maybe, just maybe, there's a reason. Find the reason.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“People weren't perfect, ever, but sometimes moments were.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“The world hazed around me.
I felt everything without feeling any thing.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Sharing a heart with someone isn’t a crowded thing when they understand you that well.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“What are the stars telling you?" I asked.
Max pushed up on his elbows and pretended to strain his ear toward the sky. "They say...They say...you're allowed to forgive yourself."
I rolled sideways...and he did the same.
"For what?" I asked.
"Living."
"I'm not very good at that," I admitted.
"Well, you kissed someone without flinching. Maybe you're getting better."
"Maybe it's just you."
He didn't argue.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Night was like Christmas. There wasn't nearly enough of it to go around, especially in June.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“She wore her heart in her eyes, and I liked her more than I know how to show.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Sometimes a small thing was bigger than a big thing.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“I was different when I was attached to him.
I was better.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“If there was such a thing greater than happiness, I felt that, too. Peace, perhaps.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“My dad's mom, Pazie, has this formal dining room, and it's so formal no one is allowed to use it. Some people have hearts like that, and I'm worried I'm becoming one of them. I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, "No, we don't use this heart anymore. It's too fragile.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“I don't want this thing in my chest to beat me to death, but I also don't want to protect it so much that I never use it again.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“With the way Max smiled, we wouldn't need the moon to light the way.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
“Nature, at its strongest, shaved off mountaintops or threw houses into the air, but it couldn't wash away pain.
Everything had limitations.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, quote from The Lies About Truth
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“…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.”
― Thomas Mann, quote from The Magic Mountain
“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from The Power of Myth
“When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.”
― Stephen King, quote from Under the Dome
“Some are sad.
And some are glad.
And some are very, very bad.
Why are they Sad and glad and bad?
I do not know.
Go ask your dad.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is no that of a man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. It assumes that preparation against danger is in itself a good, and that men, like nations, are the better for staggering through life fully armed. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.”
― E.M. Forster, quote from Howards End
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