Quotes By Author: Jennifer Elisabeth
“Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.”
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“I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.”
“Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.”
“I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…”
“I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.”
“If ever I was running, it was towards you.”
“I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.”
“Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.”
“I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.”
“Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.”
“Your personal truth is your gift to the world.”
“I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.”
“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”