Chip Pons > Quotes

“Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign or weakness nor a lack of faith, it is the price of love.”
― Chip Pons, You & I, Rewritten

“His amber eyes pour into mine - eyes I know in my soul I could get lost in for the rest of my life - and every nerve ending screams for him to hold me in his arms.
And he does.
Theo reaches forward, slowly at first and then like his life depends on it. He pulls me flat against his chest, I wrap my arms around his waist, finally inhaling the most comforting scent of him after all this unnecessary time apart.
Neither of us has to say anything else.”
― Chip Pons, Winging It with You

“I think it's foolish to think the pain of a writer's past doesn't inadvertently find itself woven within the heart of their work.”
― Chip Pons, You & I, Rewritten

“People built their myths around kings and heroes,” he says, almost like a confession. “But me? I was the shadow under their feet. No one wanted the underworld in the sky.”

My throat goes tight. What do you say to someone who’s spent lifetimes watching the world honor everyone but him? Someone who’s carved purpose out of loneliness because no one offered him a place to stand?

...

“Stars wouldn’t shine without darkness to hold them,” I whisper gently. “Maybe darkness isn’t emptiness. Maybe it’s what makes the light matter.”

His lips tremble against mine, and for a moment, the air is thick with words unspoken. So quietly I almost miss it, he whispers, “You…see me there?”

I smile, thumb grazing the soft line of his cheek. “Among the stars? Always.”
― Chip Pons, Dearly Departed

“You know I am an emotional junkie, girl... my bleeding heart lives for stuff like this!”
― Chip Pons, You & I, Rewritten

“If longing were aerobic, I’d have abs.”
― Chip Pons, Dearly Departed

“I don't know why I get like this sometimes... where the little things become overwhelming, and the big things become insurmountable.”
― Chip Pons, You & I, Rewritten

“just try to remember that forgiveness is for us…not for the person who needs forgiving.”
― Chip Pons, You & I, Rewritten

“This is how it starts. Not with shadows or prophecy. But with laughter, ridiculous soup, and Levi Wilder tugging me gently toward the kind of life I never dared let myself want.”
― Chip Pons, Dearly Departed

“It may not even be possible for you - but just try to remember that forgivness is for us... not for the person who needs forgiving.”
― Chip Pons, You & I, Rewritten

“[...]there are these times in my life when it's difficult for me to separate logic from emotion. My brain and my heart battle each other sometimes. As much as I hate that it happens, my emotions overpower any sort of logic in those moments. And well... you were on the receiving end of what that looks like. My insecurities skyrocket, my self-doubt explodes, and I'm left questioning anything and everything.”
― Chip Pons, You & I, Rewritten

“[...] I've realized that hardly anything worth doing, and doing right, is comfortable.”
― Chip Pons, You & I, Rewritten

“The hardest part wasn't acknowleding that she never chose me, [...]. The hardest part was accepting that this moment - the one that I'd been dreading my entire life - was definitively and heartbreakingly never about me.”
― Chip Pons, You & I, Rewritten

“I want that. To be happy simply because I believe I’m allowed to be.”
― Chip Pons, Winging It with You: Heartfelt, escapist and utterly joyful queer rom-com

“He groans, voice rough. “Didn’t think the mighty god of death would be so easy to bring to his knees.”

That one line unspools me. I’ve been worshipped, feared, obeyed. But this…on my knees for him, his hand in my hair, my shadows climbing the banister like a blackout curtain…feels like choosing, not surrendering.”
― Chip Pons, Dearly Departed