Emily Stone > Quotes

“Know that if I had the chance, I’d choose to spend my life with you.”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“Life’s too short to not do what you want,’ Max said simply, as if it were that easy,”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“Oh, darling. I think he’s been trying to say goodbye to you since he met you.”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“Because as much as you said that I made your life brighter, you were the light in mine when you were there, and so many times when you weren’t.”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“It's sad, but it's just ... an acceptance too, I guess. It's the type of sadness that's both more and less than the need to cry or sob or whatever. ... It's something I've learned to carry around with me, but in some ways I'm glad of that, because it means I loved them, and I remember them, you know? And that part of me, it's part of what makes me who I am, and I can't hate that, because, most of the time, I don't hate who I am.”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“Dancing in the rain on a random street in London should be on everyone's bucket list.”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“You can't plan your whole life that way, it has a habit of not cooperating.”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“when you look back at your life don’t you want to see yourself in it too?”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“But some of the best things, as she knew first-hand, came from the gaps in life,”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold' - Aristotle”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“You said that you were glad of the sadness, that it meant you remembered your parents, that you loved them, and that it makes you who you are today.' She nodded, finding it slightly amazing that he remembered so exactly. 'So if the worst happens, you'll be sad, but that will mean that you loved her and remember her.”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“Maybe you're not going to 'find yourself.' Maybe you'd be going because you've finally found yourself.”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“Strange that you went from seeing someone almost every day to them just dropping out of your life like that.”
― Emily Stone, Always, in December

“I know it’s scary, but if you never open up enough to give someone the chance to let you down, it also means you aren’t opening up enough to give them the chance to be there for you.”
― Emily Stone, A Winter Wish

“I’m owning my wild mane of red, she’d said when Lily tried to get her to brush and straighten it before leaving today. I’m like Ariel in The Little Mermaid.”
― Emily Stone, Love, Holly

“I’m writing to you from Venice—can you believe it? It is amazing! I think I want to live here.”
― Emily Stone, Love, Holly

“She’d started to understand something, this year, about saying goodbye to someone—that it isn’t always a one-off, that it can be continuous. You could say goodbye over the course of many months, in different ways. And maybe there were parts of a person you never said goodbye to, for better or worse.”
― Emily Stone, A Winter Wish

“serendipity (noun) finding something good without looking for it”
― Emily Stone, Love, Holly

“all I’ve got is that people are complicated—and what they do or don’t do doesn’t always make sense. I suppose all we can do is try to learn from our mistakes and do the best we can.”
― Emily Stone, A Winter Wish

“Doesn’t it occur to you that the reason I can’t talk to her is because our dad is gone? And because she had a completely different dad from me, and I don’t know what to say to her about that?”
― Emily Stone, A Winter Wish

“I’m chronically early. It’s a condition.”
― Emily Stone, A Winter Wish

“She didn’t think she’d ever been this exhausted or this happy.”
― Emily Stone

“I don’t think grief is ever simple or straightforward, no matter the circumstances.”
― Emily Stone, A Winter Wish

“I told you about my foot, remember?”
― Emily Stone, Love, Holly