Emma Lord > Quotes

“It’s weird, how you have no idea how far you’ve come until suddenly you can’t find the way back.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“You can't just casually tell someone you carry caramel sauce around and walk away like thats a normal thing”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“A stolen day. The kind of day that ends too fast but stays with you much longer.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“...the issue isn't so much what I want to be, but whether or not I can be it without hurting everyone else in the process.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“You know, for someone named Pepper, you're pretty salty about losing.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“It feels like there’s a fire in every corner of my brain, and instead of putting any of them out, I’m just frozen and watching it spread across the room.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“If you learn to capture a feeling, it’ll always be louder than words.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“Bluebird:
How about this? If you don't show me I won't like you anymore

Wolf:
That logic is cruel but sound. You asked for this

Wolf:
macncheeseme.com

Bluebird:
Is this...is this an app for finding emergency mac and cheese

Wolf:
Life Spider-Man, I am only looking out for the citizens of New York”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“How can a person even know who they are if they don't know what they want?”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“She turns her head so slowly to look at me that for a moment I am stricken with the weird unfamiliarity of being seen—no, not seen. Recognized. It’s rare enough someone knows I’m me and not Ethan without getting a good look at me. It’s straight up weird when someone can tell without fully turning around. The only person I know who can do that is Grandma Belly—my parents still mix us up so frequently that there’s about a 50 percent chance I am Ethan, and someone switched us along the way.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“You're...you're a forever kind of person to me. You always have been.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“I’m a perfectionist, through and through, and even at five, I had no interest in embarrassing myself.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“I don’t want this. But the problem is I do, and I don’t, and my feelings are still way too tangled for me to be able to say I don’t want to spend my whole future in this place when I also can’t imagine a future without it. It’s dumb, but I wish for a stupid, childish second I could just stay like this forever.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“There’s a ghost of a smirk on Pepper’s face, but she’s so close, I can hear it more than I can see it. “Pepper and Jack,” she corrects me. Then her eyes light up. “Pepperjack.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“But sometimes even shouting into a void feels better than just staring into it.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“Approximately eighteen hours after my kiss with Jack Campbell—my kiss with Jack Campbell—I am sitting at a card table with Pooja in the front entrance of the school behind our veritable army of baked goods, overanalyzing the situation to such an absurd degree, it is now less of a kiss and more of an FBI investigation.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“Anything worth doing starts with a mess.”
― Emma Lord, Begin Again

“I can see it too. That I don’t belong here. That even after all this time and everything I’ve done, the things I’ve pressed and organized and pushed into myself to fit into this place, home is still somewhere a thousand miles away. Farther than that, even. Because that version of home doesn’t exist anymore.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“I wish more than anything I could ask him something now. I was prepared to lose him, maybe. But I wasn't prepared for what happens after the losing.”
― Emma Lord, When You Get the Chance

“Are you a witch?” I ask, reaching in and taking a bite of one. It’s like Monster Cake, the Sequel—freaking Christmas in my mouth. I already want more before I’ve even managed to chew.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“I want to love and be loved without ever having to wonder if it’s conditional. I want a life that is sometimes just my own, without feeling like I’m responsible for anyone or anyone is burdened with being responsible for me. I want back what I lost—at least however much of it I can still get.”
― Emma Lord, Begin Again

“I feel strangely invincible, like the moments happening right now don't count for anything, but somehow count for everything at once.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“These are the things that tether me, the things I’ve always been and just assumed would always be. What she’s saying right now feels a lot like permission to leave it behind, and it scares me every bit as much as it relieves me.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“Like—getting a new start doesn’t mean you have to
wipe the slate clean. Just pick up the pieces. Begin again.”
― Emma Lord, Begin Again

“You can’t just casually tell someone you carry caramel sauce around and walk away like that’s a normal thing,” I call at her retreating back. “What other emergency dessert condiments do you have stashed in your bag?”
― Emma Lord

“They’re here for your grilled cheese,” I told her.
She fixed me with a look, crossing a leg on the massive armchair she spent most of her time in and raising a single eyebrow at me. “Not unless you changed my secret ingredient to cocaine, they’re not.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“This may have started with a war, but whatever it is now, there isn't an end in sight - not as long as we're both still winning.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“Go make the most out of it, because every day is a chance to begin again.”
― Emma Lord, Begin Again

“I don't even make it to the bed, sitting on the floor for no real reason, really, except the bed seems too comfortable, and I don't deserve to ride this misery out in any kind of comfort.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“This moment of recognition reflected back at me in her face. It's not even something I can see, but something I feel. It's not my mom and my dad or my brothers. It's me. My own confusion, my own fear. She could look like a stranger to me, and I'd still feel it as plainly.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match