“Moments come and go; quick flickers in time. Yet those moments can have the profoundest impact on our lives. Either we seize them, and wield them to our needs, or we let them go. It’s the moments we let go that, I believe, remain with us strongest—because regret is something that never leaves us.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I love you, too, baby girl,” he whispers. “Here, there, forever.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Sometimes we have to hit rock bottom before we can make our way back up.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“How do I save him, and let you go at the same time? How do I do that?”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I’m not going anywhere. The good, the bad, and the ugly . . . remember?”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I envy the river. It moves, flows, and keeps going. Unlike me.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I didn’t know what life was until death came to my door.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“man. Maybe you’re broken, but so am I. Broken doesn’t mean we’re valued any less, it just means we’ve loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we’ve lost part of ourselves. I”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Let’s put our crazy away for three minutes and just dance,”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I pray I’ll get to remember this on the other side, that whatever higher being there is will allow me to hold tightly to this memory.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“This is only a dream; the two of us imagining what could have been in another time or another life.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Sometimes that’s all we really have to get us through the hard times. Something as empty and useless as words can be what keeps us treading water in the raging and unforgiving river that is life. And that is exactly what they’ve been for me.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Listen, I don't know you or what you've been through, but I know I'd give any-thing to still be alive right now, no matter what.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“It’s the moments we let go that, I believe, remain with us strongest—because regret is something that never leaves us.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Broken doesn’t mean we’re valued any less, it just means we’ve loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we’ve lost part of ourselves.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“First off, guys don’t say BFF.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“and together we take turns narrating the life we’ll never have together.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I want you. All of you. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I love you.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Johnny Cash, God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” he says. I can’t help it; I look up at Ike and smirk. “What? You’re not a Cash fan?” He gives me a sad look. “I am,” I whisper. “What?” he groans. “Beautiful and fantastic taste in music! Where were you when I was alive?”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Words have been the fine threads that have tied me to this world, forbidding me to disappear”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“You could have her if you wanted, but instead you’re choosing to sit here and be pissed off and miserable. Maybe you don’t deserve her.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“It isn’t intimate or sexual; it’s the comfort in finding someone who finally understands.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Grief. What a horrid thing it is, yet I hold tightly to it. The agony I feel is how I remember he was here, that he existed.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“The brothers are so different, polar opposites in fact, that I find myself drawn to each one for different reasons. One is so strong and responsible; so much so, not even death can keep him from taking care of those he loves. The other, broken and lost, wishing time could rewind on one hand, but using any method necessary to forget time on the other.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Not a cruel cold, more like wounded, like a warning to stay away; a broken cold.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“She’s a very drastic woman. Not even I could have predicted she’d do something like that.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Somehow we’ve become tethered to one another, even though we both know our time together is limited.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“When her gaze meets mine, I see the sadness and the guilt in her eyes. I know she feels bad about wanting us both, but she feels worse because she knows I can do nothing about it, no matter what.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I did look obvious. Son of a bitch. “Not yet, Charlotte, but soon,” he says,”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
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“Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from The Glass Bead Game
“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”
― Madeline Miller, quote from The Song of Achilles
“It wasn't the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the path when it looked like there weren't any paths to be found.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Ink Exchange
“And he will have a great aunt called Elinor who tells him there's a world not like this one. A world with neither fairies nor glass men, but with animals who carry their young in a pouch in front of their bellies, and birds with wings that beat so fast it sounds like the humming of a bumblebee, with carriages that drive along without any horses and pictures that move on their own accord... She will tell him that even the most powerful men don't carry swords in the other world, but there are much, much more terrible weapons there...She will even claim that the people there have built coaches that can fly...So the boy will think that perhaps he'll have to go alone one day, if he wants to see that world...Because it must be exciting in that other world, much more exciting than in his own...”
― Cornelia Funke, quote from Inkdeath
“Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover. ”
― Thomas Pynchon, quote from The Crying of Lot 49
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