Hannah Bird > Quotes

“Live the best life you can while you're here.”
― Hannah Bird, The End and Then

“At what point do you stop hoping your parents will change and finally start to accept them for who they are? People who are equally as damaged as you, and doubly as set in their ways.
At what point are you justified in saying that their love isn’t worth having if you must cut yourself open and bleed in order to keep it?”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“If I’ve learned anything, it’s that the universe doesn’t give a damn what we deserve. If you want better, you have to take it for yourself. Today. Because that’s all the time you can be sure you’ve got.”
― Hannah Bird, Every Heartbeat After

“Love is a lot of things. It’s reckless when you want to be careful. Gentle when the world is anything but.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“I’ll be with you till the very end, Delilah. And if ever there’s a time where you can’t remember, I’ll do it for both of us. I promise.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“I feel so incredibly small. I feel like somebody’s child, and I can’t remember the last time I felt that way.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“You can’t spend your whole life seeing people as their worst mistake. I doubt you’d want to be judged by yours.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“She makes herself smaller to leave room for everything—and everyone—who dares to be bigger than her. I worry one day this world will swallow her whole.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“Society will tell you a man is a fighter, a soldier, an angry thing,” he’d said. “But that little girl doesn’t need any of those things. All she needs is a soft place to land.”
― Hannah Bird, Promise Me This

“Another deep breath. This time when I exhale, I send all my expectations out with the air. If you don’t want anything, it can’t be taken away. Without hope, there’s no disappointment.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“Sometimes the lies we tell others are really just the ones we’re trying to believe ourselves.”
― Hannah Bird, Promise Me This

“Just like someone else having it better than you doesn’t take away from your joy, someone having it quote-unquote worse than you does nothing to negate what you went through.”
― Hannah Bird, That Christmas Kind of Feeling

“Another deep breath. This time when I exhale, I send all my expectations out with the air. If you don’t want anything, it can’t be taken away. Without hope, there’s no”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“She leans into his side so easily, unaware that for every inch he moves, she mirrors him, and he does the same to her. It’s an invisible string tied between them, one that tugs the other in the direction they are going without a second thought.”
― Hannah Bird, What's Left of Me

“But I’m trying. There are things I don’t know how to let go of. How to forget.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“Moving back in with my parents for the first time since graduating high school was painful but manageable. There were enough logistics to work out while wading through a divorce that my mind had very little time to wander.”
― Hannah Bird, Promise Me This

“The way I figure it, if you don’t try to be someone’s whole world, you can’t be disappointed when you find out you aren’t. A sad truth, but a necessary one.”
― Hannah Bird, Every Heartbeat After

“And if ever there comes a day when Delilah cannot remember, when she looks to me for help, for hope, and asks me who she is, I’ll tell her this. You are my love. My life. My heart. You are my oldest friend and the person who knows me best. You are remarkable. And you are mine.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“I absent-mindedly reach up to smooth the skin between my eyebrows, knowing my skin will tell a very different story when the time comes. I’ve spent my whole life worrying about something.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“There can be a million other problems in the world, and not a single one of them makes yours less important.”
― Hannah Bird, That Christmas Kind of Feeling

“Then the carefully constructed life I created began to crumble to the ground. My safe, albeit predictable marriage ended. Moving”
― Hannah Bird, Promise Me This

“I want you to believe them. I want to embed myself in your heart, become as vital to you as breathing. I’m tired of pretending like I haven’t thought about you every day since you left. To pretend I haven’t imagined you exactly like this.”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“Chase, you can’t fix me.” He shakes his head gently. “You’re not broken.”
― Hannah Bird, The End and Then

“The people who were meant to love you most made you feel like an afterthought. That’s not small potatoes.”
― Hannah Bird, That Christmas Kind of Feeling

“Sometimes no matter how hard you’re hiding, it feels really good to be seen. Maybe especially then.”
― Hannah Bird, That Christmas Kind of Feeling

“Czasami, gdy ktoś łamie sobie kość, zaczyna się ona zrastać, zanim została nastawione. Na dłuższą metę to tylko szkodzi, dlatego lekarz musi panownie tę kość złamać, żeby się prawidłowo zrosła. To właśnie robisz, gdy przywołujesz wspomnienia z tamtej nocy.”
― Hannah Bird, The End and Then

“At what point do you stop hoping your parents will change and finally start to accept them for who they are? People who are equally as damaged as you, and doubly as set in their ways. At what point are you justified in saying that their love isn’t worth having if you must cut yourself open and bleed in order to keep it?”
― Hannah Bird, The Cost of Forgetting You

“I feel like I caused a lot of unnecessary heartache for both of us.” He shakes his head. “Nothing with you has ever been unnecessary.”
― Hannah Bird, What's Left of Me

“When was the last time you let someone carry you without thinking of yourself as a burden?”
― Hannah Bird, The End and Then

“And yet she gets up each day. Makes jokes. Smiles her big, sunshine grin. You’d never know how much she’s endured just by looking at her. And I realize in that moment how lonely it must be, burying your own feelings to make sure no one else ever knows they’re there.”
― Hannah Bird, Every Heartbeat After