L.M. Halloran > Quotes

“Regret lives in the past and fear in the future, but neither exist in the present. Let's live in the moment, one day at a time.”
― L.M. Halloran, The Fall Before Flight

“Where do I find myself?"
He smiled and said, "Wherever you're not looking.”
― L.M. Halloran, The Fall Before Flight

“even when we were apart”
― L.M. Halloran, First Verse

“Please.” His voice cracks. “Don’t push me away. Just for a minute”
― L.M. Halloran, First Verse

“Half angel, half devil. But the look on his face tells me all of him is mine.”
― L.M. Halloran, Double Vision

“Have you considered that not knowing who you are means you can be whoever you want to be?”
― L.M. Halloran, The Fall Before Flight

“Regret lives in the past and fear in the future, but neither exist in the present. Let’s live in the moment, one day at a time.”
― L.M. Halloran, The Fall Before Flight

“Everyone's broken. Some of us are just better at gluing the pieces back together.”
― L.M. Halloran, The Fall Before Flight

“What if instead of focusing so much on what you should and shouldn’t do or what is or isn’t healthy, you try focusing on what makes you happy?”
― L.M. Halloran, The Fall Before Flight

“No one was coming to free me, save me, or love me. I had to do it myself.”
― L.M. Halloran, The Dark Before Light

“People talk about wrinkles a lot. There's a billion-dollar industry founded on preventing the signs of aging. But no one talks about the other signs, the other wrinkles. The ones no one can see. Time leaves marks inside us, too, on our hearts. And my ticker is geriatric.”
― L.M. Halloran, Time for Us

“Whatever you’ve come from, whatever you’ve lived through, I don’t care. I’m not afraid of your dark.” Trapped in his gaze, I whisper, “But what if I am? Afraid of the darkness inside me?” He kisses my forehead, murmuring against my skin, “Then I’ll set the world on fire to bring you light.”
― L.M. Halloran, Art of Sin

“My abuelita told me that the purpose of a storm is to force trees to take deeper roots. Sleep easy now, Eden. Your roots are strong and deep.”
― L.M. Halloran, Double Vision

“We have to let the animals inside us off the leash or bad things happen.”
― L.M. Halloran, Art of Sin

“Alistair turns horrified eyes on his wife. "You sent him to a sex worker?"

Gail gasps. "Of course not! Sex therapist."

"What's the difference?" he cries. "She asks about your feelings while she tickles your pickle?”
― L.M. Halloran, The Dark Before Light

“Every moment is a blessing, each challenge an opportunity for growth.”
― L.M. Halloran, Breaking Giants

“And I can feel it. What the Buddhist called No-Self. The acknowledgement that if all things change, and change is a constant, it follows that there can be no permanent, unchanging Self.”
― L.M. Halloran, The Fall Before Flight

“What if I’m afraid of my own darkness?” “Then I’ll set the world on fire to bring you light.”
― L.M. Halloran, Art of Sin

“We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy.”
― L.M. Halloran

“But don’t you sometimes wish the world were more honest? That we weren’t so afraid to think, feel, and say what we mean?”
― L.M. Halloran, Art of Sin

“To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.”
― L.M. Halloran, The Dark Before Light

“We only appreciate the dawn because of the night that precedes it, and we only survive the night because of the moon and stars – Kieran Hayes”
― L.M. Halloran, The Dark Before Light