Brit Benson > Quotes

“I’m always going to be an addict, and she’s always going to be my greatest temptation. The only addiction worth ruining myself for.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“I only sketch Lennon in pieces because I’m not worthy of the whole. I’m not good enough. I’d fuck up a full rendition, so I stick to perfecting her in parts.”
― Brit Benson, The Love of My Next Life

“We’re not perfect. We’ve all made mistakes. We’re all the villains in someone’s story.”
― Brit Benson, For Wrath and Redemption

“The heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of another's fire.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“So, you like watercolors because they’re beautiful, difficult to master, and unforgiving?”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“I thought I could fix him, but it turns out, he just needed me out of the way. He grew up, got clean, and made a life, all without me.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“Not everything is black and white. So much of life exists in the gray spaces.”
― Brit Benson, Between Never and Forever

“Isn’t that how all the best love stories play out? It’s not love if it doesn’t hurt first.”
― Brit Benson, The Love of My Next Life

“Why? I say, and he clasps his eyes shut. "Why go to her? Why were you in that car? After Everything today..."
"I don't know," he says finally. It's not what I want to hear. "I wish I has an answer, but I don't.”
― Brit Benson, The Love of My Next Life

“The heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of another's”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“You don’t want to erase your mistakes. You want to transform them into something beautiful.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“I’m an addict, Astraea. I don’t know how to do anything small. I feel intensely. I want intensely. I crave intensely. For me, if it’s not a healthy obsession, it’s not love.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“To rock bottom, the journey back to the top, and growth.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“Anger flares inside me. Jealousy. Hurt. I made the mistake once before assuming he wouldn't do that to me.
He would.
I hate it.
I hate that it bothers me. That I can't just let it go. I hate knowing that I'll let him back after. He'll apologize, and I'll welcome his lips, even after they've been on another person.”
― Brit Benson, The Love of My Next Life

“sometimes it’s shittier for some people than it is for others.”
― Brit Benson, Between Never and Forever

“I know I love hard. I know I deserve someone who loves me back in the same way. I want a resilient, fearless, timeless kind of love. The kind people write books about. The kind people fight battles over. The kind of love that guides and grows and never wavers. I want a true north kind of love.”
― Brit Benson, The Love You Fight For

“I’m done sacrificing myself for someone who wouldn’t do the same for me. I’ll never make that mistake again.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“Serial killer documentaries, cookies, and wine; these are a few of my favorite things.”
― Brit Benson, Love You Better

“It’s my painting.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“I’ve never seen anything as sexy as Jesse Hernandez on his knees for me.”
― Brit Benson, Nothing Feels Better

“Hello?” Lennon? “Yeah, it’s me.” It’s Claire. “I know.” Lennon. You need to come home.”
― Brit Benson, The Love of My Next Life

“I’m left sitting with a pain in my chest, watching him go and replaying every word of the strange conversation we just had. Questioning everything I thought I knew about Kelley. Questioning what I thought I knew about our friendship.”
― Brit Benson, Love You Better

“The only person who will ever love you better than me is yourself, but I’m going to spend all of my life trying to match you. And when your self-love falters, when you doubt yourself or us, my heart will carry yours. I’ll love you big enough for the both of us.”
― Brit Benson, Love You Better

“Let me love you, Ivy,” he whispers, his warm breath fanning over my lips, cooling the tear tracks on my cheeks. “I’ll do it better than anyone else can. I swear it.”
― Brit Benson, Love You Better

“I’m a dopey lovesick fool and I don’t give a fuck. I’ve always been a bit soft for Ivy, but I’m a marshmallow now.”
― Brit Benson, Love You Better

“I never gave up on us,” he breathes out. “Even after you did, I didn’t. Because you belong with me, Lennon Capri. You always have and you always will.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest

“I like the idea of wanting and needing less. Of enjoying time as it passes instead of dreading it. Of finding happiness in the simplest of things.”
― Brit Benson, The Love You Fight For

“Queens before Peens.”
― Brit Benson, Love You Better

“How for fifteen months, she was lost to me, and when I finally got her back, she was different. She’s mine again, but not. She’s the same, but not.”
― Brit Benson, Love You Better

“He was the boy who broke me, and I was the girl who let him, because I thought I could fix him.”
― Brit Benson, This Life and All the Rest