Alex Stone > Quotes

“You might have been surrounded by other people – people telling you they cared, that they would protect you – but the truth is, really you were always on your own.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“Just because he’s physically present, it doesn’t mean he hasn’t abandoned you.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“It seems so simple, doesn’t it? So obvious. If someone hurts you, just leave. But in reality, life isn’t that clear. Relationships aren’t that simple. They’re layered and complicated. Does one bad action undo years of good?’ I shrugged. ‘It’s hard to say.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“You need to stop letting other people’s words have such power over you. You take them on board as though they determine your worth. But you shouldn’t let anyone have that power. Only you.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“Grief knows no time limit,’ I said gently. Scott nodded. ‘That’s because grief is just love which has lost its recipient.”
― Alex Stone, The Quiet Sister

“You carry this guilt with you for everyone that surrounds you. But the truth is, everyone has their own problems and we must all be adult enough to solve them ourselves or ask for help, not make them someone else’s issue.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“You don’t exist to make them feel better. That isn’t your role. It isn’t your responsibility.’ ‘But that’s what you do when you love someone. You support them. You help them. You make them feel better.’ ‘Not at the expense of your own happiness. Your own health.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“Rebecca’s”
― Alex Stone, The Other Girlfriend

“The foggy drowsiness that weighed against me was disturbingly familiar. As was the throbbing in my head that penetrated through the darkness. It was persistent. Nauseating. I knew pain. I was used to it. Numbed to it. It had been a part of my life for so long. But it was a part that I had promised myself was over now. Enough was enough. At least that was the plan.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“place”
― Alex Stone, The Other Girlfriend

“he could leave me, then how could anyone else ever love me enough to stay?”
― Alex Stone, The Perfect Daughter

“caught”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“You don’t exist to make them feel better. That isn’t your role. It isn’t your responsibility.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“Every journey begins with a single step,”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“If you dwell on regrets about the past and worry about the future, you’re missing out on the present. The now. And that’s the only thing we really have any control over. So live in the present.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“Don’t let anyone make you doubt yourself,’ Abhilash said. ‘Just because Josh doesn’t have faith in your abilities, that shouldn’t hold you back. You need to stop letting other people’s words have such power over you. You take them on board as though they determine your worth. But you shouldn’t let anyone have that power. Only you.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“An uncomfortable silence hung between us. Perhaps I’d been too abrupt.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient