Elle Mitchell > Quotes

“I was a sponge filled to capacity with the putrid gray water of all of those who had hurt me. I wondered if, like a sponge, I could be wrung out and I wouldn’t have to carry it anymore.”
― Elle Mitchell

“I didn't just fall in love with Ally Hargrove. I got lost in her.”
― Elle Mitchell, Carved in Scars

“You'll live to regret the things you don't say a hell of a lot more than the things you do.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“I’m not sure what he’s talking about, but it’s of little consequence when you’re standing in the middle of what’s essentially a minefield of all the things that mattered to you, and you’re watching them explode. It’s even worse when you’re the one that set them off in the first place.”
― Elle Mitchell, Broken People

“It doesn't have to be serious to matter—for it to be what you need. Things don't mean less just because they're temporary. We leave little pieces of ourselves with every person we meet and in every place we go.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“It's the way he kisses me that always makes me think he actually cares about me.”
― Elle Mitchell, Runaways

“The future isn’t real,” he says. “That's why. You can’t wake up every day trying to live for a moment in time that doesn’t exist, or you’ll miss everything. You’ll make yourself miserable for no goddamn reason.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Try to Forget

“We all come into the world as blank canvases. And we leave it carved in scars—some we show the world and others that remain invisible unless someone knows exactly where to look—but they make us who we are, whether we want them to or not.”
― Elle Mitchell, Carved in Scars

“To all the lost souls. May you continue wandering until you find yourself content and continuously wrapped in love. And if you ever find that you aren't, I hope you look for more.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“You need to be careful taking things in stride, or one day you'll wake up and realize you've much such a habit of giving in that you have no f*cking clue who you are or how to fight for yourself.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“To the rest of the world, I have to be a rock. Otherwise, they’d all know how close I am to falling apart.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Try to Forget

“Do you have any idea how much I think about you? It's like you came out of nowhere and sucked the color out of everything else, and now there's just you. Everything else is…" He pauses, unfurling the tendril wrapped around his finger. He trails his hand down my cheek and brushes his thumb over my lower lip. "Just…beige.”
― Elle Mitchell, Pretty Poisoned

“Because you've haunted me, and I can't be haunted anymore. I need to be clean.”
― Elle Mitchell, Runaways

“I scrub and scrub the mud and muck from my legs and finally cry for the first time in a long time, and it's not for Ethan or Ezra or anyone else. It's for me. It's for whatever sense of self I had before that's gone now. For the emptiness inside of me that I don't know how to fill. For this hollow shell of a person who doesn't have a fucking clue who she is and who doesn't want anything. It is me. He's right. I am dead inside.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“I think he does love you, Noah," I tell her, but I'm less certain than I was a few minutes ago. "But he's not good for you anymore. He's too…" Stubborn no longer feels like the right word. Selfish doesn't quite fit, either. Is there a word for someone who would gladly burn everything they care about to the ground and tear themself apart in the process just so they can say they were right until they die?”
― Elle Mitchell, Runaways

“I see you—I know who you are. You’re rare. You have a fierce and wild spirit that sucks people in and doesn’t let go. You're a literal forest fire,”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Try to Forget

“When you don't know better, toxic can feel like passion.”
― Elle Mitchell, Runaways

“We messed up bad, didn’t we?” “I’d fix it if I could.” “It’s okay,” he says. “When the world recycles us and spits us back out, we’ll try again. We’ll do better next time.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Try to Forget

“Make it a love song.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“Loving him is lonely—so fucking lonely—and I've been lonely long enough.”
― Elle Mitchell, A Little Unstable

“Do I make you happy?" he asks. "You said you weren't happy there. You seem happy. But I could try harder. I'd do that for you.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“On my very best days, I’m hanging from a very delicate thread, walking an even more delicate line over a river of broken things that I’ve barely managed not to let consume me. I do this by existing behind a veil of biased facts I tell myself about what happens when you expect better from people and what they can do to you when you let them in. Despite all of this, somehow, he had made it in…”
― Elle Mitchell, Broken People

“But the scars made me who I am, whether I wanted them to or not. And I’m happy with who I am now. I leave”
― Elle Mitchell, Carved in Scars

“For the ones who lie awake at three in the morning haunted by ghosts and what-ifs, replaying a set of scenes over and over in their head and dreaming of a life that turned out differently. I hope they're quiet for you tonight.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Try to Forget

“You won't find anyone who knows you like this—who loves you like this. I know the ugly parts—the ones that will always be a secret, the parts you'll never be able to say out loud because I was there. You know mine, too. And you know what I'm capable of, and you're always going to love me, anyway." "That sounds like a threat." "Who wouldn't want to be loved like a threat?”
― Elle Mitchell, Runaways

“I drink it all in, telling myself to catalog this feeling, too. This is what it’s like to love someone else. Even in the shittiest of circumstances, I’m glad I got to feel it at least once.”
― Elle Mitchell, Carved in Scars

“No one gets everything they want in life, but we get even fewer of the things we don't even bother asking for.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind

“Do I make you happy?" he asks. "You said you weren't happy there. You seem happy. But I could try harder. I'd do that for you." "I am happy. You don't have to do anything else. Just…hold me and play for me and embarrass me in public. And break shit with me when I need to, and that's enough. I'm happy.”
― Elle Mitchell, The Pieces We Leave Behind