Stewart Lewis > Quotes

“Losing someone is like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“I want to believe that even though the world's edges have become harder, I maybe be able to find a warm, soft place in it.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“Never let anyone take away the choices in your heart, it's what makes you one of a kind”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“There is so much we can't know by merely grazing the surface. We have to reach further in.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“It's lame when you try so hard to get what you want, and then when you get it, you realize you need something else even harder to get.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“It's like when you love someone so much you are blind to their flaws.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“For the first time, I don't feel the giant hands pressing around my heart. Instead, I feel weightless, as if someone has untied a knot inside me and I am slowly unfolding.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“I could have died right there, because the thought of living without someone you love is like a pair of giant hands pressing around your heart, making it smaller and smaller, until you are left with only a memory of warmth. It’s like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“If they built a love to withstand time, why did it crumble?”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“Some of us blossom after the rain.”
― Stewart Lewis, Happily Whatever After

“I will not give up on you, Oliver. Sometimes the love we build is meant to survive.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“The train might just as well have been a plane, something with wings. I felt suspended above everything: the city, time, the hard, cold edges of the world. It was fleeing, but it's a memory I can still feel.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“He asked me if i really knew what i was doing. I never answered, because I'm not sure we ever really know what we are doing. We feel things in our hearts, make decisions, hear voices in our heads that tells us what to do, but in the end we never know how things will turn out.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“No one’s path was clearly marked. There were holes, slippery corners, and roadblocks.”
― Stewart Lewis, Happily Whatever After

“Death is harder on the living," - You Have Seven Messages”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“Wait a second. Why does everyone, including me sometimes, think that a man will solve everything?”
― Stewart Lewis, Happily Whatever After

“That was the thing - adults thought they knew everything, but a lot of times they had no idea”
― Stewart Lewis, One Stupid Thing

“Everyone was interesting, it seemed, if you dug deeper and looked past the surface.”
― Stewart Lewis, Happily Whatever After

“Marriage seemed to be more about what we were supposed to do, what others wanted us to do, rather than what was right for us.”
― Stewart Lewis, Happily Whatever After

“Les gens n'expriment pas souvent ce qu'ils éprouvent avec des mots. Ceux-ci ne sont souvent que des indices - il faut aussi décrypter les visages.”
― Stewart Lewis, 3 fois rien qui font tout

“I'd started to understand the spell a painting could put me under. The way that light on canvas could recreate life, the feeling that you could almost step into it.”
― Stewart Lewis, Happily Whatever After

“It's as if Lester and his money was a disease, and now it was spreading into her whole family”
― Stewart Lewis, One Stupid Thing

“Then we waited in silence. It was obvious what all of us were thinking: This is mortality, that thing we shove into the recesses of our mind. And here it was, right in front of our faces”
― Stewart Lewis, Happily Whatever After

“We feel things in our hearts, make decisions, hear voices in our heads that tell us what to do, but in the end, we never know how things will turn out.”
― Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

“There are moments in time that seem small and insignificant but in fact change everything...”
― Stewart Lewis, One Stupid Thing

“What you see of people on the outside is only the beginning”
― Stewart Lewis, One Stupid Thing

“There are a million factors, but the most important thing is to be able to love someone and still be yourself. So many people give up themselves for some twisted version of love.”
― Stewart Lewis, Happily Whatever After

“First, I was convinced love was about money, then I thought it was about power and status, then I thought it was just about caring for one another … but let's face it, if Barkley wasn't Barkley, I probably wouldn't be with him. There are a million factors, but the most important thing is to be able to love someone and still be yourself. So many people give up themselves for some twisted version of love.”
― Stewart Lewis

“His father made truckloads of money, but all the money in the world couldn't buy someone a heart, or a moral compass”
― Stewart Lewis, One Stupid Thing