21 Quotes by Cristin Terrill

You say you’ll be fine, and I swear I’m shoving you out of this car!” I snap. I hate it when James gets like this, so perversely determined not to be a bother to anyone, like last year when he broke his wrist and insisted on scrawling his equations in an unreadable script with his bad hand rather than letting me write for him. He doesn’t see how much I want to be bothered by him, how that means I’m actually important to him.

It’s stupid to get so embarrassed and trembly over a few little words.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that people are bad at keeping secrets, and eventually everything shows.

I’d spent a lifetime becoming a mirror that just reflected back the person others wanted to see, but she didn’t want anything. So I was nothing.

For a second I’d forgotten. And when I remembered, it stung all over again.

People are always their most beautiful when you know you’re never going to see them again.

It was one thing not to be loved, but it was another thing entirely to believe that people loved you and then learn all at once that they didn’t.

No one should be confronted with the depths of darkness they’re capable of all at once.

His expression is an open book to me, because I took the time to learn the language many years ago.