Emma Scott > Quotes

“We might not have months or years, but we have moments. Thousands upon thousands of them. Let’s take each moment, seize it and wring it dry.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. –Cesare Pavese”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“I would love you forever, Kacey, if I only had the chance.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure.”
― Emma Scott, All In

“You are a universe, Kacey. I kept waiting to find the end of your love and beauty, the end of your generous heart. I never did. I never will.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“I felt him in every pore, every breath and beat of our hearts. I’d never experienced anything like this in my life. He was a universe. My love for him was just as boundless.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“That you can find beauty everywhere, even in the things that scare you the most.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“Love, real love, wasn’t empty, grasping hands, or lies that felt like truths. And it wasn’t perfect or neat or always easy. It was a rising sun on a new day. It was endless possibility.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“You are a universe.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
I looked at Kacey sitting beside me. She is not merely an ocean. She is an entire universe.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“He told me to love again, and I do. So much."
"He told me to love you. But I already did. So much.”
― Emma Scott, All In

“I once read that you fell in love like how you fell asleep: slowly at first and then all at once.”
― Emma Scott, The Butterfly Project

“They say all who wander are not lost. But some of us are. We’re really fucking lost, wandering until our feet bleed, and it feels like we’ll never find our way home again.”
― Emma Scott, How to Save a Life

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along,” she recited.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“A semicolon is where a writer can choose to end the sentence,” she said, tucking a lock of brown hair behind her ear. “But they don’t. The story goes on. It’s a symbol of hope. To keep going.” She smiled tremulously. “Sometimes I need that reminder.”
― Emma Scott, All In

“No. You will. Love him. Love him with everything. Like you loved me. Love him more.” His eyes closed. “I’m so happy, Kace. Never like this in my life. It’s…a gift. You know?” I”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“I didn’t know it then—I couldn’t have—but in that moment, the rest of my life, or what was left of it, began.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same.— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross    ”
― Emma Scott, All In

“Maybe what I told her was a lie. Maybe I could be what she deserved. Maybe I could make the same teeth-clenching, sweat-pouring effort I’d put into my PT, and channel that into living blind, so that she wouldn’t have to constantly be cleaning up after me, or dragging my ass out of the house. My endless black was never going to go away. That was certainty. But kissing Charlotte had been a burst of light streaking across it, like a comet.
Maybe. Maybe is gradations of darkness. The sweetest torture.
Maybe is hope.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“I love you,” I said. “God, I never thought this would happen to me.”
“But it did,” she whispered. “It happened and all we can do now is take care of each other. Live in the little moments, right? Just like we promised. The little moments. We have so many. Thousands upon thousands.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“Whenever the urge to kiss him came over me, I would kiss him. No more living life halfway. We had to go full tilt, just like the card players did. I would hit instead of stay. Always. We”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“You can prepare all you want for someday. Nothing prepares you for the day of.”
― Emma Scott, All In

“Dying, I learned, is a not a team sport. It’s a solitary endeavor. Everyone I loved was standing on dry land, while I was alone on a boat as it slowly pulled away from the shore, and there’s nothing anyone could do about it but watch it happen.”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“Own this love, Wes. It’s not just hers. It’s yours too.”
― Emma Scott, Bring Down the Stars

“A butterfly flutters its wings in Malaysia and the changes in air currents cause a hurricane in Florida. I love that idea. That even one tiny action can create an enormous effect.”
― Emma Scott, The Butterfly Project

“Love had no end. She was infinite. She was a universe, my universe, and I was hers.
Love had no boundaries, no rules, no favorites.
And no limits.”
― Emma Scott, All In

“That’s my legacy: I loved you and was loved by you. I’m”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“My world had been fading to gray until she burst in like a bombshell of color and light...”
― Emma Scott, Full Tilt

“His hands came up to my head, around my cheek and under my hair.
His handsome face was no longer chiseled in stone, but open and naked and raw. “I love you. I’m in love with you and I will be for the rest of my life.”
― Emma Scott, All In

“I’ll love her enough. I’ll love her enough she’ll never want for it. I’ll spend my entire life loving her and making her happy. And she will be happy.”
― Emma Scott, All In