Britney King > Quotes

“With us, there were always too many false starts. I believe that what's meant to be usually has a way of working out... and with us, it never did. Call it timing, call it fate, call it what you want. It is what it is. Sometimes in the end, the girl doesn't always get the boy--and that's ok. Life goes on. You know better than anyone that some love stories never get their happy ending... but it doesn't make them any less of a love story though, does it? It doesn't make the love the two shared any less relevant.”
― Britney King, Somewhere With You

“Sometimes... I feel like I can't picture him anymore. Like I'm forgetting him... I forget the way he looked when he smiled. The sound of his voice. The way his hand felt wrapped around mine. And it hurts so badly, Jack. It hurts so fucking bad. Sometimes, it's so painful I can't breathe. Like the pain just sucks all of the air out of me... until there's nothing left. I don't want to forget. I really don't. But I don't know what to do. I don't know how to make it stop. It hurts to remember. But it hurts even more to forget.”
― Britney King, Somewhere With You

“Do you ever think of quitting, Jack?” He studied her face, not quite sure what she meant. “Quitting what? “Life.” Jack shifted his whole body toward her then. “Amelie. What in the fuck are you talking about?” he demanded. “You know, doesn’t it all feel like too much sometimes? Like it just takes so much effort… and you’re not sure you have it in you to keep going. I think maybe I just feel too much. I feel so much all at once sometimes that it’s overwhelming. So much joy. So much pain. And I just want to tap out, you know. To numb it. Or make it go away… I don’t know. For once, I’d like to know what it would be like to feel nothing at all.”
― Britney King, Somewhere With You

“You’re the kind of girl who prefers long conversations deep into the night or in the small moments before the sun rises … moments hazy and real”
― Britney King, Water Under the Bridge

“Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.”
― Britney King, The New Hope Series Box Set: Books 1-3

“The moral of the story is this: people enjoy the validation they receive from being able to please someone else.”
― Britney King, Room 553

“I’m so sorry,” Amelie whispered in the dark. “I’ve never really thought of it this way but… I guess I was pretty lucky.” “That’s bullshit, Amelie. You weren’t lucky.” “I really was, though. One day he was there. And the next he wasn’t. At least, I can remember him the way he was, you know.”
― Britney King, Somewhere With You

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” ― Rumi”
― Britney King, Blood, Sweat, and Desire

“You don’t need everyone to know where you are, what you’re doing, to show how great your life is. You don’t seek approval by shouting into the ether, into what I call the great want-to-be-known. You’re not like the masses—most people lay it all out there at the curb like garbage on trash day, and I’ll tell you what that does—it makes the whole neighborhood stink.”
― Britney King, Water Under the Bridge

“Bad decisions are written in permanent ink. Life cannot be reversed.”
― Britney King, The Book Doctor

“Sometimes you have to look back in order to move forward. Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where that is the only thing you can do, which is exactly the situation Addison Greyer found herself in when she awoke in a hazy fog with something warm and wet trickling down her face. She tried to shift, to pull herself up, but it was useless. Her body hurt and nothing was right. This is what dying feels like. She did her best to recall what happened before she was in this predicament, but nothing came and it took so much effort to try and remember.”
― Britney King, Bedrock

“She sat me down and explained I might be dying. She was sorry, she said. She might have guessed wrong, and it might be too late. Even if it wasn’t, we didn’t have insurance, and cancer treatment is very expensive.”
― Britney King, Her