Please Love Me Quotes

“Bathed in the light of those sparkling mirrors, I burn like a star while my partner fades into the shadows. The crowd begins to cheer. I'm the life they thought they lost. I've emerged, their resurrected champion at center ring.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“They remind me that no one saved me and no one will ever have to save me again.
I will save myself.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“Your love should be for me, not for my love,' he says. 'There's a difference.'
'It is-- you just won't let me love you. I'm not going to stop trying. You don't want me to stop, do you?'
'No,' he says.
I'll never forget that tiny word and how he said it.
'Then say you love me,' I insist, back throbbing.
'I can't.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“Nature requires rain but it can be destructive, too.'
'Like love?' I ask but he doesn't seem to hear.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“He loved me. He loved me not. Perhaps we'll never know; life is like that. All I know is that once upon a time I saw a powerful glimpse of truth that set me on a new path.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“Through the darkness, I'm sure I see some growth in the shallow moonlight.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“Peyton, you have to swim away. Trust me. It's hard, but you have to find the right direction and keep swimming until that line around your neck snaps.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“I'm simply lost in that deep walled-off hole some of us go when searching for a savior.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“As children, almost every summer my brother and I found at least one dusty Christmas ball in the corner of the living room or beneath the couch. I always wondered how something so fragile could fall so far and not break.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“I envy her ability to tell the entire world what she feels. One day, I'll find a way, too.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“Nobody loves me,' I say.
'Somebody does.' Peter runs his hand down my back.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“How do you know which friends are real?' I ask.
'They love you; they tell you the truth,' he whispers in my ear.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“Now i know that some of those hidden pearls of truth exist but some are just empty shells that trap us.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“I realized I'm trapped in the embrace of the one who is breaking my heart.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“I remember what my father said the day he cried. "You'll make it, Peyton. You're strong."
I decide that I will never give up.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“In time, I'll forgive my mother because forgiveness and love are inseparable; feeding off each other when there's nothing left.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“He fights, night after night, to peel my onion soul without caring about it. I never see his tears but his eyes burn as they fill with the putrid smell of my insecurity, anger, and pain. He loves me in glorious bouts of unreserve, swearing I'm all he thinks about and all he wants. Those precious moments are worth the hatred he seems to have for me in the hours and days that come between.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“What about the details? You were going to teach me about the details.'
'This is about the big picture, you ought to know that.' His arm slides across the table and just for a moment, the tips of our fingers touch.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“What about the details? You were going to teach me about the details,'
'This is about the big picture, you ought to know that.' His arm slides across the table and just for a moment, the tips of our fingers touch.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“I remember what my father said the day he cried. 'You'll make it, Peyton. You're strong.'
I decide that I will never give up.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me