Brooke Burroughs > Quotes

“Honestly, I thought that I hated him. But it was really love in disguise. And sometimes the emotion is just so intense you don’t know how to identify it.”
― Brooke Burroughs, The Name Curse

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― Brooke Burroughs, The Marriage Code

“You have to leave to get lost. But you can always come home to find yourself.”
― Brooke Burroughs, The Name Curse

“But it’s more important to just live, you know? You never know what’s going to happen. You have to seize the moment and make the most of it.”
― Brooke Burroughs, The Name Curse

“And I packed some meal-replacement bars because I don’t trust people who say they are going to feed me for a week.”“Completely understandable.”
― Brooke Burroughs, The Name Curse

“Being alone in a crowd made you actually feel alone, whereas if you were alone by yourself, you were just you.”
― Brooke Burroughs, The Name Curse

“after he was gone, she felt that emptiness like a dead weight inside her, filling her up like cold iron, how absolutely he was not around to take care of her.”
― Brooke Burroughs, The Name Curse

“But then her voice would get that airy, wistful sound when she’d mention how different she used to be, and Bernie would get a little hollow feeling in her chest, a feeling that said she was a disappointment”
― Brooke Burroughs, The Name Curse

“I think sometimes love can be quiet. And sometimes you only see what you want to see. If”
― Brooke Burroughs, The Name Curse

“If love isn’t that easy feeling that fades into the background and stitches itself into your life, what else is it?” “You make it sound like a quilt your grandmother gave you. Love should be more like an electric blanket. If you mishandle it, you could get shocked. Or, if you’re lucky, it’s like being electrocuted.”
― Brooke Burroughs

“And when you take a minute to just breathe and take in your surroundings, all the stuff that feels like it should matter doesn’t really matter as much as we make it out to. Like, I’m always so worried about being good at my job and being successful so I can pay my rent and pay off my student loans. But in reality, if I step back and just remove myself from everything, I realize I’m not going to get fired. I will still pay my bills, have a roof over my head, and all that.”
― Brooke Burroughs, The Marriage Code