Elba Luz > Quotes

“You always show this much concern over strangers?"
"Only the pretty ones who like to drink whiskey.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“My fingers hook into his belt loop, and I pull him even closer. “Are we betting or what?”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“What a gift it is to be loved so deeply you can feel each panicked beat of someone else’s heart pounding for you.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“It feels like I had this deposit of gold within me once, treasured and sought after, but someone has been in there carving out every remnant of it. Only flecks of it remain, it’s not even worth mining. Not so valuable anymore.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“People are complicated. Wonderful people do horrible things”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“People love each other at their messiest”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“I just scammed you for your bank info, and you’re complimenting me?”

“I’d like to do far more than just that.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“Mom says ‘normal’ is a man-made construct that I shouldn’t have to abide by.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“Those who are alive can haunt places just as much as those who are gone.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“Unlike a sprain that needs a cast or a cut that can use some Neosporin, emotional pain can’t be cured with any over-the-counter remedy. But it can be dulled, if only temporarily, by regarding the bottom of a whiskey-filled glass. Repeatedly.”
― Elba Luz

“We all make mistakes”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“am my own person. I make my own decisions. I decide what’s important to me. I decide what’s fair. I decide what I can tolerate. You always want to fix things before they break, so you don’t know this—but sometimes, breaking isn’t the end. Breaking lets people learn they can pick up the pieces, no matter how jagged, and put them back together in any way they want. Let people break, Lucy.” She places her hands on my cheeks. “Let yourself break.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“I think people make love out to be this scary and weighted word—and sure, it can be—but love comes in many forms. It can be this lighthearted feeling, this sense of true contentment, like sitting out and basking in the sun for hours and listening to the sky breathe. It can be as small as the act of letting a bug out the slider door rather than killing it. It can be weighted and filled with baggage, but still feel warm—like loving people who hurt you as much as they make you laugh. And it can be this all-consuming desire to care for another person.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“And, if I’m honest, the silence leaves too much room for self-reflection. A reminder of where I want to be and where I actually am. Still struggling, still single, still trying to find steady ground.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“I raise a brow. “You thinking what I’m thinking?” “Oh, absolutely,” Taina says, pulling out her phone. “The universe speaks to me.” “I’ll kill you.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“As soon as I feel the softness of his lips, the warmth of his touch as his hands wrap around me and press me closer to his body—harder and harder until there’s no space between us—my heart races so fast I’m sure it’s leaving tire marks in my chest.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“You always want to fix things before they break”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“I’d gladly worship you.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“When it comes to the ones we love, we often can’t see what’s right in front of our faces. A curse of feeling too much and loving too much is that your sense of logic halves itself.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“I’m about to say no, because I’ve always believed tea is the equivalent of sewer water,”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“Your best friend is marrying your first love?” I shout, a burst of energy sliding through me. I grip his face in my hands. “Why are you here? Why would you subject yourself to this kind of agony? Are you a masochist?”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding

“you never know if the hug you give someone will be your last.”
― Elba Luz, How to Ruin a Wedding