Nessie Q. > Quotes

“Let’s take it slow because some of the good things in life are worthy of reverence and appreciation. Let’s take it slow because what we have is like a cross-country ride, where all the breathtaking scenes must be breathed in and stared at with wonder. Let’s take it slow because getting to know you is like a trip to a museum where things, both wonderful and gruesome, are waiting to be discovered. Let’s take it slow because some things are best done at a leisurely pace — the slow dance, the first kiss, making love.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“I want you. But I’m scared to say it out loud. And it sucks because I've always been someone who always says things out loud.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“Because you see, when you’re a strong person, people often look to you to take care of them. People look to you for help. People look to you for strength.
And when your life spins out of control, it’s as if their lives are tied to your own and will come crashing down with yours.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“Love is fireworks. It’s the first dance. It’s the first kiss. It’s the first time you make love. It’s the first hateful word. It’s the first fight. It’s the first tear you shed. It’s the first time you made up.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“Let’s take it slow because I’d like each moment we share to be etched in my memory. And I’d like these memories to make me smile wistfully someday. Let’s take it slow because I’m keeping a journal of our journey, and someday I’ll turn it into a book. I’d like our story to be rich in detail, and full of laughter and intriguing conversations. Let’s take it slow because all my life, I’ve always rushed into so many things, and they were all mistakes — I’d like you to be one of those things I’m going to do right. You deserve that much.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“I want you to want me. But I want you to want me for all the right reasons.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“You look like someone
who has gone to war
and came back
with a thousand deaths burned in his eyes.
You look like someone
who has been told a dozen promises –
promises that broke his heart
when he realized
he didn't matter enough
for them to be kept.
You look like someone
whose edges started to chip away.
You look like someone I could love,
someone whose darkness I could light up.
But goddamn it, darling,
I promised myself
I would never fall in love with a broken man.
I have loved so many broken people
and I have fixed them all up.
I kept giving all I had,
until I had nothing left to give.
You look like someone I could love,
someone I want to fall in love with.
But you‘re in pieces,
I know you‘ll just wound me.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“Love… is friendship. A deep, lasting foundation that you both decided to set on fire.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“We ended the way all good things in my life had a way of being put to rest – abrupt and without my permission.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I love you with the words I left unsaid, with the silence that I often spoke, that you still understood. I love you for the constant push and pull of my dissonance, for every internal battle that ensued because of you.I love you for the heights of irrationality you have driven me, for making me lose control. But most of all, I love you because you‘re not mine — because we almost happened. because I would never find out what would happen next… because you‘ll always be a question without an answer.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I want you to tell me that you feel the same way for me. And I’d like you to tell me those feelings are worth it. I’d like you to say I’m worth it.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“He loves me. But I love you. But you love her. It’s always that way, isn’t it? You’re willing to wait for her just like I’m willing to wait for you… just like he’s willing to wait for me. Someday, we all might turn around and realize what we had in front of us all along. Someday, we might not.
But until then, we’re all stuck at waiting.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“I want to ruin you in the ugliest way imaginable so that someday, when you have to tell your children about me, it will take every breath you have to hide the catch in your throat”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“If you were coffee, you would be bitter and strong; the kind that makes my heart palpitate its way out of my chest -the kind that can turn my thoughts manic. Oh, just the way I would like it. I like it.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“Don't fall in love with me. I am dissonance. I am always at war with myself – confusing my head with my heart, always retreating into my mind, because I don‘t want to lose.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I‘m no good at loving people but…


I will love you
like the darkness loves the stars.
I'm the goddess of the night.
I will smear my ink
over your skin,
and leave paper cuts
where the light can get in.
I will break you
then make you whole.
You‘ll be the moon
lighting up the sky.
But I will never be done –
we‘ll dance together
until my darkness is gone.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“All at once, because life’s too short and it’s always like magic when you find a good thing. All at once, because I’m much too wise to not know that lightning can’t really hit the same spot twice when it comes. All at once because right now, surrendering to irrationality seems to be the only thing that makes sense.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“Every night, I take off my clothes to wear thoughts of you.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I love how you know
there's a dozen things
that's wrong with me
but you still say I'm just fine.
It makes me think
that there are really no monsters
So terrifying
they can't be loved.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“Hell is a place on earth, they say.

Shakespeare got that one right.
For I have been torturing myself
over things that I could never change.
Hell is a place on earth;
it‘s in my mind.
and you are the one
sitting on the Devil‘s throne.
I can‘t forget you.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“You‘re everything I wanted, all of them, rolled into one. We were lovers and enemies and the best of friends. At times, it was one more than the other. At times, we were all of them all at once. But there have been times, I admit, when we were two complete strangers struggling to live with each other. At times, we felt like We were just each other‘s habit.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I'm so sorry no one cared enough to tell you that you can never win against a ghost.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I don‘t know if you noticed but I have been trying, too hard, to be myself since the day I lost you.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“He was broken in the best way – in a way that made me stop and stare and want to love him.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“You were too ready to believe the worst in me. And I was too hopeful I believed the best in you.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“You look like someone who has gone to war and came back with a thousand deaths burned in his eyes. You look like someone who has been told a dozen promises –promises that broke his heart when he realized he didn't matter enough for them to be kept. You look like someone whose edges started to chip away. You look like someone I could love, someone whose darkness I could light up.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“I will be the constant reminder in your life that you will never be alone anymore. And should your brain start playing tricks on you, you start forgetting who I am or where we live, I will still be there, every morning. Until all the grays of our hair have become so wise, they will feel they've learned all there is to life and decide it's time for us to go.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“being together… it will never be right. Thought it sure as hell feels like it could. We’d result to train wrecks. We’d cause whirlwinds. We’d start wildfires.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“I think of you, my darling, in the most inconvenient of times. I think of you when I‘m talking to my friends when I‘m working when I‘m reading the news. I think of you when I‘m eating or taking a bath or when I‘m supposed to be writing. I think of you and how your smile makes my days brighter. I smile and think to myself how lucky I am to sometimes be the reason why you smile.I think of you and how you look when you‘re upset. I think of you and how I‘d love to have your voice lull me to sleep. I think of you and how I want to sleep next to you at night and wake up next to you and see your face the first thing in the morning. God, it drives everything that‘s a woman in me crazy. But then I‘ll think of you again, and I won‘t stop thinking of you unless I catch myself doing it.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You

“Drink me in, like you would your morning coffee, in tiny sips, in between your thoughts and passing glimpses of candor. I want a taste of me in you.”
― Nessie Q., I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You