Georgia Stone > Quotes

“We all carry parts of the people we’ve loved”
― Georgia Stone, The Roommate Rule

“Mine,’ he says quietly.”
― Georgia Stone, The Roommate Rule

“I think you’re gonna like me.” It’s accompanied by a smile, but it feels like a threat.”
― Georgia Stone, The Friendship Fling

“I got into the habit of feeling like I needed to earn people's affection.”
― Georgia Stone, The Friendship Fling

“I always know where I am, if you’re around. You keep me tethered. I could be swept out to sea, but I’d hear your voice in my head telling me to be safe, and it’d bring me back. Like an anchor.”
― Georgia Stone, The Roommate Rule

“Just existing near you made me remember how to be happy. I feel like I’m finally giving myself a chance, and it started with you.

You did that yourself.

But I couldn’t have done it without you. One of the new things I’ve been working on is being more honest about my feelings. Making sure I communicate them. I just…” I shake my head as I try to collect my thoughts, and Finn looks down at my fidgeting hands on the bench, sliding his own over them and squeezing. “It’s like I was living on autopilot for so long. And then you arrived and you coaxed me out and I started to turn into someone I liked. Someone who participates in their life. You set that in motion, and I’ll never be able to thank you enough for it. I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you all this earlier, how important you are to me. Do you know how special it is that you help people bloom? Maybe now I can take steps forward on my own, but I needed the initial nudge. I won’t deny how much you contributed to getting me out of the dark.”

If he’s the sun, I must be the moon. Sometimes you need a little help to glow.”
― Georgia Stone, The Friendship Fling

“you could say my type has always been people who hate me a little”
― Georgia Stone, The Friendship Fling

“Ask for forgiveness, never permission.”
― Georgia Stone, The Roommate Rule

“Come here,’ he says”
― Georgia Stone, The Roommate Rule

“may the consequences of my own actions never catch up to me”
― Georgia Stone, The Friendship Fling

“It's not being fully okay yet, but it's the brilliant, blazing hope that one day you will be. It's laughing loudly and living fully and leaving trails of stardust in your wake. Like sunlight, love finds its way in through the cracks regardless. Might as well open the door.”
― Georgia Stone, The Friendship Fling

“It didn’t even feel like falling, in the end. It felt like breathing.”
― Georgia Stone, The Roommate Rule

“A few metres away, and I’m homesick.”
― Georgia Stone, The Roommate Rule

“My heart’s grown accustomed to a lack of sunlight. Nothing can bloom there.”
― Georgia Stone, The Friendship Fling