8 Quotes by Alicia Cook

You always want one more day.You always want one more pictureas the old ones begin to fade.You always want that one final hugto have lasted just a tad longer.You always want the fondnessof the remember-whensto outnumber the might-have-beens.You want more years, more months,more weeks, more days,more minutes, and more seconds.You want the happily ever afteryou always thought you deserved,but the only thing actually promisedin this life is uncertainty.

We may sleep together,but my dreams are my own.

I've read about people who were so sad, they stayed in bed all day. That alone motivated me to want to get up, even if I just moved to the couch. The couch is not the bed.

I need to stop renaming the decisions I've made as mistakes just because I wish I could take them back.

If you are feeling lost,helpless,down,sad,angry,betrayed,you name it,you can rise from it,you can create from it,you can grow from it.I am living proofthe most turbulent year of one’s lifecould also turn out to bethe greatest, more rewarding year, too.

There have been nightsI’ve shared a twin bed with himand still couldn’t get close enough.Then there have been nightsspent in a king bed where I’ve feltas though his annoying ass was stillin my personal space.We e b b and f l o w.But there’s no one else I’d rathercrash into every night whenthe tide hits its inevitable peak.

Your life will never be the same, ever, so you can never be the same, ever. Pain will make you stronger, but it will make you a lot of other things first.

To do better, to be better, to make other things better. My whole damn life is my passion project. You think I have big hair; you should see my dreams.