Bella Coronel > Quotes

“Love is the choice of creating sandcastles even if you knew it'll be washed away by the sea. It's the pursuit of building something so fragile because it makes you genuinely happy.”
― Bella Coronel, Chasing Dandelions: A Collection of Prose and Poetry

“Maybe that's what love is all about. That some love stories only end in a 'happily'... without the ever after. That some girls end up loving one man for all their lives and some men kept loving one girl, even after he met a lot. Maybe that's what love is all about.

Maybe...”
― Bella Coronel, Chasing Dandelions: A Collection of Prose and Poetry

“Do you still love me?”, he asked.

And after a long pause, trying to stop myself from bursting into tears, I answered, “I never stopped loving you. I chose to stop giving it.”
― Bella Coronel, a Constellation of Almosts

“Well, it’s like this. We choose to stay and to let go. We ask guidance from God with our choices. We align our desires to the opportunities presented. But sometimes, even if we want something or someone so badly, we just can’t have them.

Either circumstances do not allow it, or we are just not the choice.”
― Bella Coronel, Chasing Dandelions: A Collection of Prose and Poetry

“I do not have much idea about love, but it would be nice to believe it’s the totality of you.”
― Bella Coronel, Caffeinated Daydreams

“Patience is one of the hardest skills in life to acquire; and waiting is one of the hardest tasks to comply with when you have a desire.

Wait. Hope. Pray.”
― Bella Coronel, a Constellation of Almosts

“Tell me every trauma you ever had, every neglect you endured all your life, every bit of insecurity you concealed inside, and I’ll love you anyway— even with all the different shapes of your pain.”
― Bella Coronel, a Constellation of Almosts

“But as I think of it, I just don't want love to look like you. I want it to be you. ”
― Bella Coronel, Chasing Dandelions: A Collection of Prose and Poetry

“And then I realized that sometimes it was God who planted such seed in my heart; to care, to love, to hope. Even it hurts a lot right now, enduring what God had planted in our hearts, do know that we are being taught with a lesson. And that lesson will make us a better person, maybe even the best version.”
― Bella Coronel, Caffeinated Daydreams

“Some of our life's almosts may hurt us the most.
Bringing pain in our hearts, wearing out our souls.
We find ourselves recognizing situations which are already over.
You thought your dream was closer— instead you got closure.

Sad, isn't it?”
― Bella Coronel, a Constellation of Almosts

“I will love you when you think you deserve it.
And I will love you even more when you think that you don’t.”
― Bella Coronel, Chasing Dandelions: A Collection of Prose and Poetry

“Our almosts are God's way of letting us know
there is something more to our life—
and it's about to surpass what you've asked for, even greater than what you've desired before.

Have faith.”
― Bella Coronel, a Constellation of Almosts

“I love you more than the poems I could ever write.”
― Bella Coronel, Chasing Dandelions: A Collection of Prose and Poetry

“Maybe closure feels akin to the warmth you get when sipping your coffee in a café, silently watching people do their things. You begin to appreciate life knowing you’ve made it through after a long, hard battle with all the negativities the world gave you.”
― Bella Coronel, a Constellation of Almosts

“Loneliness is a horrifying disease that doesn't have a lot of options for its cure.”
― Bella Coronel, a Constellation of Almosts

“I'll be your book to read on when everything else starts to wither, even when you don't remember me, at all.”
― Bella Coronel, Chasing Dandelions: A Collection of Prose and Poetry