Christine Brae > Quotes

“We can't hold on to the past and let it influence what's best for us.”
― Christine Brae, The Light in the Wound

“I'm going to spend every night of my life kissing away your memories of him. I'm going to find places he never kissed and our first times will be a thousand times sweeter than your first times with him. Isabel you are the love of my life. -Alex Ailey”
― Christine Brae, The Light in the Wound

“I’ve learned that giving your heart away to someone is the bravest thing you can ever do. The one moment that it’s cherished, no matter how brief, can help it to survive a lifetime.”
― Christine Brae, The Light in the Wound

“You can lose yourself a million times over, but your heart will always know who you are. In every wound and place of emptiness, love provides a light that guides you through the darkness. It relentlessly seeks you out and stops at nothing to find you. Love always finds you. And when it does, it will bring you home.”
― Christine Brae, His Wounded Light

“When we see each other again, whether it's tomorrow or next week or years and years from now. Whenever you see me. Look into my eyes from across the room wherever I am, wherever you are, and know that I love... you. That's never going to change. Look into my eyes now and feel it. It will always be only you, no matter what, no matter when.”
― Christine Brae, The Light in the Wound

“It’s because the best things in life are never easy. And the more you fight for something, the more you know that it was meant to be.”
― Christine Brae, His Wounded Light

“You can never replicate the feelings of a first love, Jesse. The passion, the elation, the sorrow, the pain. When it’s the first time, everything is so much more magnified. You feel like it’s the end of the world when you’re not together. A second love is more subdued. It’s more careful, more cautious. But it’s still love and when it comes with respect and admiration and friendship, it trumps passion and elation any time.”
― Christine Brae, The Light in the Wound

“Life isn’t perfect. You take things one day at a time.”
― Christine Brae, The Light in the Wound

“Never accept a counteroffer. If they weren’t good to you the first time, they’ve lost their chance to gain your loyalty and trust. What makes you think it will be better the next time?”
― Christine Brae, The Light in the Wound

“When you lose your soul to a kiss… it’s irretrievable.”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“Sometimes, people take for granted the closeness that they share when life is good and there’s no need for friendship or support.”
― Christine Brae, The Light in the Wound

“Dear Fate, Go away. Leave me be. Allow me to live with my loss, the truth, this revelation.”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“Don't let the poor choices you made negate the years you spent loving him.”
― Christine Brae, His Wounded Light

“I think about you every day. I see you in every happy place. I see you so clearly every time there's goodness and laughter.”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“No one can stop loving someone who had their heart for such a long time.”
― Christine Brae

“They say that love is found in the darkest of moments, when you’re lost and alone, in desperate search of answers.”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“Time waits for no one.”
― Christine Brae, Insipid

“She was mine and I was hers, not in the next life, nor in the future life, but here and now. In this life.”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“I was in the arms of a stranger, but in the embrace of someone I had known for a hundred years.”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“Love takes so much more than a few nights in bed and a few hours of conversation. In the past six months, I have also learned that it means many things to people. For the longest time, I thought that love meant staying and persevering. Today, I know that love is living, giving, believing and letting go. Sometimes it even takes twelve years for you to question whether or not you ever really had it.”
― Christine Brae, His Wounded Light

“There is sacredness in tears, someone once said. What I learned that day was that without pain there could be no deliverance; without sin, no salvation. That in this life, it is only through sadness that one could truly experience joy.”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“I wasted five years of my life loving someone else when I should have just loved only you.”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“I wanted to carve the scars that he left me with on his skin.”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“Do you think we were meant to meet, to spend time together, despite the fact that in the end, we have to go our separate ways?”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“I want you to remember me when I was strong, hot and hunky, funny and oversexed”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“I am who I am now because of everything I went through in my life. No, I don’t regret a single thing.”
― Christine Brae, The Light in the Wound

“Success is a funny thing. You can’t really enjoy it when you’re empty. Your heart is a bottomless sinkhole that swallows up everything and anything that it ingests and yet nothing can fill it. There’s no sense of accomplishment; everything is meaningless.”
― Christine Brae, His Wounded Light

“Not all men are born to be fathers. They say that we’re hunters, we’re here to provide. But you, the love that you have for your siblings, the way that you are with children, you have that innate gift of being a nurturer.”
― Christine Brae, In This Life

“One hour. That’s all the time he’d spent with her. One hour, and yet he knew that his life had been forever changed.”
― Christine Brae, Eight Goodbyes

“You must know, more and more, I die with every goodbye. It used to be okay. It used to be easy to separate you, keep you in a different section from the rest of my life. Now, all I want is for you to be in it.”
― Christine Brae, Eight Goodbyes