56 Quotes by Elle Cosimano

Sometimes, the only way to find a solution is to break the rules.

No matter where you are raised or what name you are given, you will endure. You will swim, you will dance, and you will love without fear.

I reached for her, held my hand out in the space between us. She looked at it, and then to me. And then she placed her hand in mine. I shut my eyes and felt all the love that had always been there, that I had never let myself feel before. All thos things I’d thought my father had taken with him when he left. Everything I needed was here, inside her. ‘I’m sorry,’ I said, letting my own tears fall, ’if I made you feel like you weren’t good enough.

But I think maybe we had all found something too. The courage to face the pieces of ourselves that frighten us the most. And the power to realize those demons inside only control us if we let them.

Just because it’s complicated, doesn’t mean there isn’t a solution.

The worlds were empty. Hollow. As though he’d heard them so many times they’d lost their meaning.

And those traces of my father-the pain he’d left behind in the people he’d stolen from, the genes I carried that made me just like him-terrified me.

I watched him fall into a dark corner of himself and I resisted the urge to touch him, not wanting to feel the depth of emotion I saw on his face.

But maybe we aren’t the sum of our mistakes or our genes or our circumstances or our fears. Maybe, in the end, we’re the product of our choices. And maybe it’s when we hold someone’s life in our hands – the choices we make in those moments – when we get a taste of what we’re truly made of.