Elsie Silver > Quotes

“If this were my last moment alive, how would I want it to be?”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“What the hell is the cowboy hat rule? You wear the hat, you ride the cowboy.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“Save a horse, ride a cowboy.”
― Elsie Silver, Heartless

“Willa might be a bit of a psycho—after all, she did just push a child into the pool—but the more time I spend with her, the more I feel like she’s my psycho.”
― Elsie Silver, Heartless

“She and I really are binary stars, stuck in each other’s orbit, drawn together by forces we can’t see or understand—but that we can feel.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“You don’t tell a person you love them with the expectation they’ll say it back. You tell them because you want to. You tell them because it’s true.”
― Elsie Silver, Hopeless

“And I realize in that moment maybe I am heartless after all, because the beautiful girl with the copper hair grinning back at me right now is the one who stole it.”
― Elsie Silver, Heartless

“Life lesson, shithead. Careful who you pick a fight with. Someone insane might love him.”
― Elsie Silver, Heartless

“You were out there this whole time, and now I know you exist, and I can never go back. Wouldn’t want to if I could.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“I think people mistake you being in a bad mood when you’re just overwhelmed. I think you needed to lie here for a few minutes with no one needing you. I think you’re overstimulated and even the best of us require some time to collect ourselves.”
― Elsie Silver, Reckless

“It strikes me that perhaps I’m not an easy woman to love, but Theo does it so effortlessly that I feel like I could be. Like I deserve to be.”
― Elsie Silver, Reckless

“Hear this, Rosie. You are worth every penny. Every fortune. Every investment. Every risk. You are priceless to me.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“I could fucking bury whoever made you believe you’re as unlovable as you seem to think.”
― Elsie Silver, Reckless

“It means . . . I live you. Like I see you everywhere, you are in everything. Our connection is more than physical.”
― Elsie Silver, Reckless

“Times have changed, Sloane. I’m not scared anymore. You’re not my fucking friend. You’re just mine.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Have you tried talking to him?” I blink at her. “Talking?” “Yes. You know . . . where you use your mouth to create words that describe what’s going through your head.” “Sounds weird. Sounds awkward. Don’t like it. Not approved by me.”
― Elsie Silver, Heartless

“Because as much as I don’t need a knight in shining armor to defend my honor, I’m relieved I have one who feels compelled to do so.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“Princess, you look like you were made for me."
"I feel like I was made for you.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“Don’t you get it, Jas? I’ve seen all the darkest parts of you and I’m still here. I still want more. Stop trying to scare me away. It isn’t going to work.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“I want a wild love....I want this feeling I have with you where it hurts to breathe when you get too far away, where my skin itches uncontrollably when you look at me. Where thinking feels overrated because we both know nothing and no one will ever feel like this. Like us.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“Please don’t cry. I fucking hate it when you cry. It’s like a bullet to my chest.” “Taken many bullets, have you?” My voice is weak, and I hate that. “No,” he husks, “but I would. For you, I would.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“That journal entry is fascinating, but all wrong. I was at home when you called that night. And I broke every speed limit to get to you.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“I don’t care. Don’t you get it? I’m in love with you, Willa. Prickly legs, random carrots in your purse, pregnant, not pregnant. I want you.”
― Elsie Silver, Heartless

“I just remembered that he called me the morning after you two first got together. And do you know what he said to me?
He said, ‘Mom, I met her.’ And I said, ‘Who?’ He said, ‘The woman I’m going to marry one day.”
― Elsie Silver, Reckless

“For all the ones who have felt crippled by the opinions of others. I hope you learn to love what you’re doing so completely that all those critical voices cease to matter. And until then, remember that thriving is winning. Go forth and thrive.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Eyes

“Willa: You only live once, you know. This is a story you could tell your kids one day. Summer: What the fuck kind of stories do you plan on telling your children, Wils?”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“No, Sunny. I shouldn’t be scared. You’re the least scary thing in my life. You’re not just tattooed on my skin. You’re branded on my heart. Woven into the fiber of my being. The most constant and reassuring person in my life. When I close my eyes, I see you. When you’re away from me, I dream about you. When I need someone to lean on, you are always there for me. God. You’ve loved me when I haven’t even been able to love myself.” My hands squeeze her cheeks and tears seep out over them. But she’s smiling up at me like I hung the moon.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“...when you love someone, and you share the mistakes they’ve made with people who don’t love them the way you do, you can’t expect those same people to forgive them the way you do either.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“The answer is no. None of that shit matters. Because we’re me and you. We’re us. Unlikely and inevitable all at once. We’re forever.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“I love your freckles,” he murmurs from behind me, the pad of his finger tracing lines across the expanse of my back. “They remind me of all the constellations. Like I could draw lines between them, and pictures would appear.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless