22 Quotes by Abby McDonald

All it takes is for me to try and not think of Garrett, and suddenly, he’s consuming my every idle musing. Picking a radio station? Garrett only listened to NPR. Browsing the refrigerator for orange juice? Garrett likes the pulp style best.

You can die of a broken heart – it’s scientific fact – and my heart has been breaking since that very first day we met. I can feel it now, aching deep behind my rib cage the way it does every time we’re together, beating a desperate rhythm: Love me. Love me. Love me.

You’re not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.

The less time you spend dreaming up a world of happily ever after, the more time you’ll have to actually live – no evers or afters required.

This is about me. And how I will never get to be one of those girls, no matter how much I hope and pray and want it.

When you look in the mirror, what do you want to see: yet another reminder of your hopeless attempt to be the girl of his dreams, or you? The answer should always be you.

I need to find out who I am without him.

It’s your life. If you don’t make it so that you get what you want, nobody else will.

You’re seventeen now. You can do... absolutely nothing you couldn’t already.