Forever, Interrupted Quotes

“No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“Drunk words are sober thoughts,”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“I'm just trying to tell you that your life will be very long with zigzags you can't imagine. You won't realize just how young you are until you aren't that young anymore.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“Things happen in your life that you can’t possibly imagine. But time goes on and time changes you and the times change and the next thing you know, you’re smack in the middle of a life you never saw coming.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“Sweetheart, I’m telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn’t matter if you had thirty years,” she tells me. “It wouldn’t be enough.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“What's the rush, honey? We have all the time in the world.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“That is what true love is. True love is saying to someone “Forget about us. We will be okay,” when it might not even be true, when the last thing you want is to be forgotten.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“You loved him. He loved you. You believed in each other.  That is what you lost. It doesn’t matter whether it’s labeled a husband or a boyfriend. You lost the person you love. You lost the future you thought you had.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“You won’t realize just how young you are until you aren’t that young anymore.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“This apartment is acting like nothing has changed. Everything has changed. I tell the walls he's gone.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“How I wish I'd had time to find him positively mind-numbing. When you love someone so much that you've stuck around through all the interesting things that have happened to them and have nothing left to say, when you know the course of their day before they even tell you, when you lie next to them and hold their hand even though they haven't said one interesting thing in days, that's a love I want.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“what's the point of a promise anyway? How can we expect people to stick to their word about anything when the world around us is so arbitrary, unreliable, and senseless?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“I punched someone in the library stacks, somewhere between 972.01 and 973.6”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“My eyes are bloodshot. I look at my face and I think that I had someone who loved this face. And now he's gone. And now no one loves my face anymore.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“I was waiting for someone that would sweep me off my feet and would be swept up by me in equal parts.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“I want so badly to take all her words and fit them like the pieces of a puzzle into the hole in my heart”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“I remember seeing it on him the next day thinking that I never knew how sexy a wedding ring was on a man until it was my ring, until I put it there.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“Every morning when I wake up I forget for a fraction of a second that you are gone and I reach for you. All I ever find is the cold side of the bed. My eyes settle on the picture of us in Paris, on the bedside table, and I am overjoyed that even though the time was brief I loved you and you loved me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“I really didn’t think this was going to happen. I thought bad things only happened to people with hubris. They don’t happen to people like me, people that know how fragile life is, people that respect the authority of a higher power. But it has. It has happened to me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“He's never coming back. Whether you go or you don't go. So get in the car, because it's the last thing you can do with him.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“And what I want is to be with the kind of man that wants to marry me so bad, nothing will stop him. I want to be loved by someone who loves me so much he can't think straight. I want you to love me in a way that makes you stupid and impractical. I want to rush into this. Rushing into it is romantic. It makes me feel alive. It makes me feel like I am jumping of a cliff and I know I'll be fine because that is how much I trust you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“She'll know not to settle for anything less than a love that changes her life”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“I was going to wake up early tomorrow and go into the bathroom and write ‘I love you’ on the mirror with a bar of soap.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“And then, for some masochistic and stupid reason, we had sex again.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“We can live again. I'm not sure if we can love again, but we can live again.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“I find myself smiling, finally. I guess I do remember how to do it. You just turn the corners of your mouth up.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“I like to think you and Ben were like that. That you ended abruptly, but in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“You are everything I have ever wanted in another person. You are my best friend, my lover, my partner. And I promise that I will spend the rest of my life taking care of you, the way you deserve to be taken care of. My whole life I was never looking for something bigger than myself, and then I met you and I want to dedicate every day of my life to you. You are it for me. You are why I am here. Without you, I am nothing. So thank you, Elsie, for being who you are, and for spending your life with me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“There's a huge hole in my heart where you used to be. When you were alive, I used to sometimes lie awake at night and listen to you snore, and I couldn't believe how lucky I was to have found you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“I just want to know you're okay. I want to know that you didn't suffer. I want to believe that you are in a better place, that you are happy and have all the things in life that you loved, with you. I want to believe that you and your father are together. Maybe at a barbecue in heaven, eating hot dogs. I know that's not the case. I know that you are gone. But I don't know how to live with that knowledge.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted