7 Quotes by Bethany Chase

There are these two little words I know, that we all know; we learn them so early that we can't remember when we did. They have a gravitational attraction to each other, I would say: the one word 'love,' and the other word 'story.' 'Cause you can have a story without love, sure; but when it comes to the kind of love you fall in, whether it's a slow glide or a blind plunge over the edge...you can't have a love without a story.

But the thing about what-ifs is that you can drive yourself crazy, spinning your thoughts around and around until you’re dizzy; and for all that, you only ever end up in the same place you’re standing. All you can work with is what happened. What might have happened only haunts you.

Loss splits your world into people who get it and people who don’t.

Even these last few, terrible days, he’s been my first thought in the morning, my last thought at night. Eamon – not Noah.

Death is not the way they show it in the movies, with the dying person holding on just long enough for one last embrace, some final words of love or absolution.

One man’s desperate is another man’s persistent.

I think sometimes you get so used to being with someone that it’s just a habit, not something that really makes you happy.