Liz Newman > Quotes

“I am worth more than these excuses. I am worth more than this inconsistent, unhealthy, disappointing dynamic. I am worthy of finding someone that is never going to allow us to settle into this toxic, distorted version of love.”
― Liz Newman

“I bathed myself in silence, wrapped warmly in the comfort of the quiet. Yes, the stillness accepts us as we are.”
― Liz Newman

“I look forward to the day that I can feel nothing but indifference for you. Just like you were able to do from the moment that you walked away.”
― Liz Newman

“Her eyes look tired, but it’s her soul that’s truly weary.”
― Liz Newman

“She chose messy, she chose wild. She chose life on her own terms.”
― Liz Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats

“I was missing you, but not for the person you were. I was missing you for the version of you I made up in my mind. I was missing the possibilities of what could have been. I was missing the potential I thought I saw in you. I was missing you for the glimpses I thought I saw of our future and for that hopes I had that I could be a girl worth changing for.”
― Liz Newman

“Find a love that listens even when you’re not saying anything, that knows the infinite ways
you express yourself in silence, and can interpret the quiet as though you’re screaming to be heard.”
― Liz Newman

“Sometimes,
People just aren’t going to get it
It’s an ever-elusive concept, to be understood
All you can hope for
Is that you find someone that tries.
Find someone that tries.”
― Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding

“Of Ruin and Renewal


We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Sorting through the rubble
Of our painful past.

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Waiting for the dust
To settle at last

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Searching for eyes that see us
And walk through the debris

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal,
We rebuild, we revive,
We repurpose our own story.”
― Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding

“Fear is a fickle friend who will loyally stand by your side as long as you allow it to diminish you.”
― Liz Newman

“And you find that sometimes you search to fill a void that doesn’t exist until you venture out far enough to create it.”
― Liz Newman

“Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I will choose to stay in love with you through everything this life throws at us.”
― Liz Newman

“Her legacy was that she loved with all she had, whether you deserved it or not.”
― Liz Newman , Hope Between Heartbeats

“I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.”
― Liz Newman

“We left this love in ruins, wreckage and debris. A ghost of our former glory, artifacts of what used to be.”
― Liz Newman

“The Mask

We often pair the turmoil in our mind
With a calm exterior,
Hoping that the mask
Will serve as a floodgate
To hold back the chaos
Of our swirling thoughts”
― Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding

“When my world
was nothing but darkness
I set my soul on fire.”
― Liz Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats

“Some stories
can only be appreciated
by the storyteller
Some adventures
can only be preserved
in the heart of the adventurer.”
― Liz Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats

“Like radars, restless and searching.”
― Liz Newman

“How brave that our hearts find a way to continue beating even while they're breaking.”
― Liz Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats

“You’ve been looking for someone else while losing yourself along the way.”
― Liz Newman

“I jolt out of sleep and cold sweats creep on as they always do. Waking from one nightmare only to be haunted by the memory of you.”
― Liz Newman

“I run my fingers down the spines of old books and ancient tales. I smell the ink and feel the pages as I delicately peer at the words and paragraphs. Each book home to a story, giving its characters immortality. I smile and think that perhaps someday, I will make a home out of these pages too. And sit on a shelf, ready and waiting to share my story with the next reader.”
― Liz Newman

“I had completely lost myself in pursuit of you, and I couldn’t recognize who I had become. It took looking in the mirror that day to realize that it was time for a change. I had traded in my relationship with myself in hopes of having a relationship with you, and it was time for me to make it up to that girl in the mirror.”
― Liz Newman

“I lived for so long without you, only dreaming of the concept of you. And, now that I know you, I can't imagine going back there... to a me that didn't know your name.”
― Liz Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats

“Spilled Ink

It seemed unfair
And unfinished,
And now it would always be tragic.

Because you kept
Loving them
Even when the story ended.

And there was nowhere
To spill the ink
Of the heartbreak their absence wrote.”
― Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding

“Your heart has always been willing to bleed, to ache, to humble itself for love. And, when you’ve had enough, your heart will be the last to let go.”
― Liz Newman

“Atlantis

People would whisper about us
And our fall from grace
As our world fell to ruin
And our worst fears were realized,
We’d be submerged and forgotten
The stuff of speculation.
Legend at best,
We were a lost city,
Singing our siren ballads
Of heartbreak and woe
From the depths below,
We were here!
We were here.
We were here…”
― Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding

“I fell in love with your strength and your heart. I fell in love with your quirks and your stories. I fell in love with every part of you, the good and the bad. Mostly, I fell in love with creating a life with you.”
― Liz Newman

“Protect your heart from thoughtless people
who have no regard
for the damage they cause.
For they are reckless in their pursuit and
hasty in their retreat,
taking only what they wanted and leaving
you to deal with the aftermath.”
― Liz Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats