Tillie Cole > Quotes

“Live hard, love harder. Chase dreams, seek adventures … capture moments. Live beautifully.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Why does it take a life ending to learn how to cherish each day? Why must we wait until we run out of time to start to accomplish all that we dreamed, when once we had all the time in the world? Why don’t we look at the person we love the most like it’s the last time we will ever see them? Because if we did, life would be so vibrant. Life would be so truly and completely lived.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“kiss 1000 with Poppymin.
When she returned home.
My heart completely burst.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Why be miserable when you can be happy? It’s an obvious choice to me.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Hey Mol.
Hey You.
You gonna give up that lucky sweet kiss?
If that's what you want.
It most definitely is.”
― Tillie Cole, Sweet Home

“This isn’t the end. It’s just a little pause in our lives. And I’ll be watching over you, every single day. I’ll be in your heart. I’ll be in the blossom grove that we love so much, in the sun and the wind.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“When you’re near, my heart doesn’t sigh, it soars,”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Maybe we’re like the cherry blossom, Rune. Like shooting stars. Maybe we loved too much too young and burned so bright that we had to fade out.” She pointed behind us, to the blossom grove. “Extreme beauty, quick death. We had this love long enough to teach us a lesson. To show us how capable of love we truly are.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“A home is not a place. It’s not a country or a town or a building or possession. Home is with the other half of your soul, the person who shares in your grief and helps you carry the burden of loss. Home is with the person who throughout it all never gives up on you and brings you eternal happiness.”
― Tillie Cole, Sweet Home

“because sometimes all we get are moments. There are no do-overs; whatever happens in a moment defines life—perhaps it is life.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“He kissed me until there was no part of me that didn’t know who it belonged to. He kissed me until my heart again fused with his—two halves of one whole.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I think hearts beat a rhythm like a song. I think, that just like music, we’re drawn to a particular melody. I heard your heart’s song, and yours heard mine.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I don’t remember Romeo being this pushy with Juliet!”.....He arched his eyebrows meaningfully. “And look at how that worked out for them. My way is better—less death, more orgasms.”
― Tillie Cole, Sweet Home

“Kiss eight hundred and nineteen was the kiss that changed it all. The kiss that proved that a long-haired brooding boy from Norway and a quirky girl from the Deep South could find a love to rival the greats.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I didn’t need grand gestures or fairy tales; a normal life with the boy I loved would have always been enough.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“It’s me babe... Ain’t no other man for you... but me.”
― Tillie Cole, It Ain't Me, Babe

“When you know that something is finite, it makes it that much more meaningful.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“He explains, the times where there is only a single set of footprints were not when He walked beside them, but instead, when He carried them.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Why does any human want anyone? My body recognises you as something that’s good for me. My mind recognises you as someone who’s right for me, and my soul recognises you as someone who is meant for me.”
― Tillie Cole, Sweet Home

“For believers in true, epic, soul-shattering love. This one’s for you.  ”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“She told me that the best and prettiest things never stay around for long. She said that a cherry blossom was too beautiful to last all year. It was more special because its life was short.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“They were always meant to be together, one boy and one girl, two hearts split into two, sent to far-off lands on their own. For God wanted to see if true love could be tested. He wanted to see if two halves of one soul could find each other again, even against the odds. Years would pass. They would both be hurt. They would both be sad, but one day, when they least expected it, they would stumble into each other’s paths. The question is: would they recognize each other’s soul? And would they find their way back to love…?”
― Tillie Cole, Raze

“It’s like music,” she explained. “When I look at you, when you touch me, when I see your face … when we kiss, my heart plays a song. It sings that it needs you like I need air. It sings to me that I adore you. It sings that I’ve found its perfect missing part.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“A small smile transformed his normally hardened features and he took my hand and ran it across his ribs. "Are they all there?"
I frowned. "What?"
"My ribs. Is there one missin'?
My hand smoothed up and down his sides. "Okay, I think you've lost it. You think you're missing a rib?"
He exhaled a quiet laugh. "Just thought God took one of mine when he made you.”
― Tillie Cole, Sweet Home

“four hundred and thirty-four, with my Rune at the beach … when his love came home.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Because I love her. I love her more than I could ever explain. My single set of footprints in the sand.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Gotta take life by the balls at some point and squeeze those fuckers with the skill of a whore.”
― Tillie Cole, Heart Recaptured

“A queen bows to no one, especially to her king.”
― Tillie Cole, Sick Fux

“For the first time in my life, I feel wanted... like I finally belong. There is nowhere on Earth I would rather be than here with you. You do not cage me, Styx. You make me soar.”
― Tillie Cole, It Ain't Me, Babe

“I have only ever liked one boy in my life. I have only wanted one man to have as my own. I have only ever had one dream since I was eight. Styx, the dream is you. You stole my heart fifteen yes ago and you still haven’t given it back.”
― Tillie Cole, It Ain't Me, Babe