21 Quotes by Emma Lord

What I can’t let go of is the way I tried just now to tell my mum my world was falling apart, and she left.

What I can’t let go of is the way I tried just now to tell my mum my world was falling apart, and she Ieft

Friends?'The word seemed cheap... It was never going to fully describe what we were to each other. But that wasn't what the word was doing right then. It wasn't a definition; it was a boundary. One I needed to accept.'Friends.

This moment of recognition reflected back at me in her face. It's not even something I can see, but something I feel. It's not my mom and my dad or my brothers. It's me. My own confusion, my own fear. She could look like a stranger to me, and I'd still feel it as plainly.

But you're...you're a forever kind of person to me.

If you learn to capture a feeling, it’ll always be louder than words.

he doesn’t like me the way I like him. And if he did once, he doesn’t anymore.

I breathe in the sticky warmth of the air, the pine and the electricity and the ache of something deeper than I can name, knowing that no view I can capture will ever compare to this feeling—seeing it through my eyes while seeing it through his, letting us both bleed into a world where those two things can be the same.

...the issue isn't so much what I want to be, but whether or not I can be it without hurting everyone else in the process.