C.K. Kelly Martin > Quotes

“Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you’ll regret and still, you do them.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, I Know It's Over

“How many times can a person break you heart?”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, I Know It's Over

“Things don't always change with a bang. Sometimes they change so gradually that you can't clearly pinpoint the last moment they were truly the same.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, One Lonely Degree

“In two years you can love somebody with all your heart and lose them. You can become the very best of friends with someone and then neglect them to the point that they don't expect anything different from you anymore. You can become someone you never expected and forget things you believed you could take for granted about yourself.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Come See About Me

“Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, I Know It's Over

“You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, I Know It's Over

“Sometimes it seems so easy to make people happy that I wonder why I don't do it more often.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, One Lonely Degree

“I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, My Beating Teenage Heart

“Bending instead of breaking,” he repeats. “That’s probably always a better option if you can take it, isn’t it?”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Come See About Me

“Maybe no one person should be that important that their absence drains life of meaning, but he was. Day after day and the loss didnt get any lighter.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Come See About Me

“A thought is just a thought until you own up to it and give it depth and weight.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Come See About Me

“There´s no cure for that kind of missing, but I keep walking...”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Come See About Me

“Love is real and real love lasts. I used to feel sorry for people who didn't believe in it--the people who were lonely with someone else or lonely along. For awhile I was was one of the lucky ones.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin

“It´s amazing how quickly life can take things from you-and astounding the swiftness with which its gifts arrive too.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Come See About Me

“But you can't unsee something once you've seen it. Not without a memory wipe anyway.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Yesterday

“I wanted to tell his dad that Nathan was fine the way he was and that he was the one that needed to change. It made me glad to have my parents. If I told my dad I was gay, he'd probably just look scared and hand over more safe sex money." -Nick Severson”
― C. K. Kelly Martin, I Know It's Over

“In my opinion, we didn't have to aspire to greatness. We were already there.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Come See About Me

“What the fuck does he think he's doing anyway? And when has running around in a figure eight ever helped anyone?”
― C. K. Kelly Martin

“There's a cultural level of acceptable grief that I'm on the wrong side of.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Come See About Me

“Then, once he was gone, Bastian took up more of my energy and time than he ever had when he'd been alive.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Come See About Me

“It’s like hunger or needing oxygen. It’s not something you can make up your mind to quit craving. It just is.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, Yesterday

“For anyone who has ever wondered if they could stand another day. Rage on.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, My Beating Teenage Heart

“Things don’t always change with a bang. Sometimes they change so gradually that you can’t clearly pinpoint the last moment they were truly the same. That’s the way it was with my parents. I know when they were happy, but I couldn’t tell you exactly when.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, One Lonely Degree

“I don't know much, but this is something I'm certain I'm learning for the first time: the stars know things that we don't and they always have”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, My Beating Teenage Heart

“The sick feelings creep up on me until I want to shout so loud that it would make my parents come running. I never do, of course. It wouldn’t help and my parents would cart me off to some highly recommended shrink that would want to know everything.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, One Lonely Degree

“The sickness stretching tight across my face the moment he was gone. My skin feels that same way now, like a mask that doesn’t fit anymore, like I’m not the person anyone thinks I am, not even Audrey. But if I’m not that person, just who am I instead?”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, One Lonely Degree

“I’m taller than other 15-year-old girls, but not skinny or pretty enough for that to be a good thing. For the longest time, I didn’t even have any boobs. I was like an elongated Pippi Longstocking. Believe it or not, that’s not a popular look in 9th grade, 10th grade either.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, One Lonely Degree