42 Quotes by Jess Rothenberg

When you’re in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at babies and strangers and old couples walking down the beach holding hands.

The problem is, there is absolutely nothing “fun” about falling in love. Nope. Mostly it just makes you feel sick and crazy and anxious and nervous that it’s going to end miserably and ruin your whole life. And guess what: Then it does.

You can obsess and obsess over how things ended – what you did wrong or could have done differently – but there’s not much of a point. It’s not like it’ll change anything. So really, why worry?

My heart didn’t fail, someone failed my heart.

I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I feel for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.

Like Wendy, John, and Michael Darling on the night Peter Pan taught them how to fly – I think one happy thought. In my pocket, I have a knife.

One nice thing about heaven is that you can relive all your favorite moments and memories pretty much as many times as you want – sort of like a DVD of your whole life. Pause, rewind, fast-forward, slowwww motion, all day, every day.

There’s always that one guy who gets a hold on you.

After all, how do you describe something you cannot see, or hear, or touch? How do you describe something that isn’t really there – not in any true, measurable sense?