Alexis Bass > Quotes

“We’re supposed to be reckless and careless and wild. And none of it is supposed to hurt. If we’ve kissed too many people, smoked too many cigarettes, had too much to drink, laughed too hard, offended too many people—we've done it right. We haven’t wasted any time. And Nathan and I have a lot of catching up to do.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“According to Shelby, the longer you know someone, the longer they have to let you down. But sometimes, the longer you know someone, the more time they have to surprise you.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“Some wounds don't heal; they aren't suppose to.”
― Alexis Bass, What's Broken Between Us

“When you're the first, you don't get to be the last, too. Not usually.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“A game. That’s all life is, that’s all it feels like. Everyone waiting for their turn to spin the bottle or for the bottle to finally choose them. Who would you rather is real. We can be erased, that’s real too.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life that it changes from something you craved to something you belong in”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“I picture my pain separated into fragments. Instead of getting pierced with a giant knife that has the potential to kill, I'll just be stabbed occasionally with razor blades. So when he finally leaves me for good, and the last cut is inflicted, I'll be used to the pain.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“An even bigger miracle is the ways we find to cope with our own brutal mistakes and accept them, especially when there's no solution. Maybe, when there's no repainting what we've wrecked and we have to navigate around the shape, broken parts of our own destruction, that's when we need one another the most.”
― Alexis Bass, What's Broken Between Us

“People have been here before you, and you're going to be okay.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“I was desperate for a kiss, but I was terrified to kiss him. There was nothing I wanted more, and that was the terrifying part.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“I've managed to keep him for three months, but in no way does that mean I get to keep him forever. That's the whole idea, isn't it? That is what the theories prepare us for. This is why, when he's finally gone for good it won't hurt as much.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“At least when someone lets you down, you can stop expecting things from them.”
― Alexis Bass, Happily and Madly

“Good-byes are sad, but they don't have to be. We always knew we'd be moving on, we just never understood what it took to do it, and what we got to take from the people and places we left.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“Say “girlfriend” and boys say “good-bye.”
― alexis bass, Love and Other Theories

“But I AM sad about it. I feel the loneliness again for passing out in Trip's bed and knowing that's the closest I'll ever be to him again, for being fine with it, for being fine with never again getting what I used to want more than anything because now I have something else, someone else, I want more.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“Cowards die many times before their deaths..”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“Maybe, when there's no repairing what we've wrecked and we have to navigate around the sharp, broken parts of our own destruction, that's when we need one another the most.”
― Alexis Bass, What's Broken Between Us

“Or maybe everyone feels this way-like they've failed or been failed. Families: letting each other down since the beginning of time.”
― Alexis Bass, What's Broken Between Us

“You can regret doing something as much as you can regret doing nothing.”
― Alexis Bass, Happily and Madly

“Their laughter explodes around me. I close my eyes. There's a part of me that wants to carry these moments with me, no matter the weight. There's a part of me that understands they're precious. I try to hold on to that.”
― Alexis Bass

“I was in no position to be left. I was already gone. I didn’t have to be nervous. I didn’t have to be scared. It was a relief”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“some things in life just are”
― alexis bass, Love and Other Theories

“It's so easy to look back, but sometimes it's no use.A”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“We disagreed about things I didn't think were even up for debate.”
― Alexis Bass, What's Broken Between Us

“we hate her because she’s everything we do not want to be”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“The way he sticks up for her makes my bones ache, like they've been shattered into a million pieces and I'm going to whoosh into the ground any second.”
― Alexis Bass, What's Broken Between Us

“It's so easy to look back, but sometimes it's no use.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“He was..." Thoughtful, I think. So thoughtful that when he told you a joke it was as though it'd been tailored just for you. And genuine - he said something to you, he meant it, he was good for it, he'd fight for it and for you, too. And warm. He was inviting in a way that no one in my family is, including me.”
― Alexis Bass, What's Broken Between Us

“Do you think it will always be like this?' I ask Trip. It's getting dark, but the sky still looks blue. Navy, like a veil is draped over it. 'That everything will always feel like it's changing? We'll always be leaving, we'll always be moving on?'
'Not always,' Trip says, 'Not right now.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“I've got that sickening feeling now that I know I've been wrong about everything. One of life's tricks. You can go with your gut. You can pick someone to trust. You can be wrong.”
― Alexis Bass, Happily and Madly