- "That’s my problem: I think too much, and I feel too deeply. What a dangerous combination.”
- “And the harsh reality of life is that you are going to hurt. You’re going to cry over a silly boy - your heart’s going to be broken. But you have to pull yourself together so people don’t see how vulnerable you are. Once people see vulnerability, they take advantage of you. And the whole process starts all over again.”
- “I notice everything. And by everything, I literally mean everything. I notice when someone stops hitting me up like they used to. I notice when the way someone talks to me starts changing. I notice the little things that people do, and the little things they used to do. I notice when things change, and when it’s no longer the same. I notice every single little detail. I just don’t say anything.”
- “We revisit
old feelings for
the same reason
we re-read books —
comfort in words familiar
even though we
know the endings.”
- "People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past"
- "my ultimate goal is to be at peace with myself, eliminate toxic feelings and elements and energies from my life, unlearn negative and harmful practices and thought patterns, stop checking for people that don’t check for me, create a space for myself that is nurturing for growth so that i may generate loving energy for myself and for others, nourish my spirit and balance my energies, i have big dreams and i deserve to live a life i love and let that love radiate"
- "I have noticed that if you look carefully at people’s eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away"
- "If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.”
Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After - “With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.”
- "Confidence is not saying ‘I’ll make it happen no matter what,’ that’s insecurity. Confidence is telling yourself ‘regardless of the outcome, I’ll still be happy and true to myself’"
- “And we are quotation marks,
inverted and upside down,
clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence.
Trapped by lives we did not choose