Lucy Score > Quotes

“There’s a difference between taking care of someone because you love them and taking care of someone because you want them to love you,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“You’re the one who has to live your life. Don’t apologize to other people for the decisions you make for yourself.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“At some point, you have got to stop worrying so much about what everyone else needs and start thinking about what you need.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“When you trust someone to see you for who you really are, the betrayal is a thousand times worse than if you hadn’t handed them the weapons in the first place,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“You get to decide how you show up in this world. No one else gets to dictate to you who you are,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Being vulnerable doesn’t mean you’re weak. It means you trust yourself to be strong enough to handle the hurt. It’s actually the purest form of strength.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“You know what they say about fine. Fucked up. Insecure. Neurotic. And emotional,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“This book is about the bravery it takes for us to love someone when we all know how every love story ends.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Sooner or later, you have to accept that you’re not responsible for other people’s choices. Worse, sometimes you can’t fix what’s wrong with them.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“There are some things we never get over. Some things we hide from the light,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“You make broken things whole again. Me. You made me whole. And every time you smile at me, I feel like I hit the lottery again.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Mistakes were meant to be learned from, overcome. They weren’t meant to destroy.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“However, unpopular opinion here. You’re not responsible for how you were brought up, but you are responsible for your actions and reactions once you’re an adult.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“You want someone you can trust with your nightmares. Not just your dreams.”
― Lucy Score, By a Thread

“You remembered,” she said softly. “I remember every second of us.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“We both just wanted someone to love us enough to make up for all the times we hadn’t been enough.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“If I could have chosen a son in this lifetime, it would have been you. Take care of my girls.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“I’d lost myself while trying to convince someone else that I was what he wanted. I’d forgotten who I was because I’d let someone else take over the definition.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“You can have anything you want. A big church wedding. A backyard barbecue. A five-figure wedding dress. But I have one demand.”
Of course it was a demand and not a request. “What’s that?”
“I want daisies in your hair.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“So is setting an example for your niece about how she doesn’t need to turn herself inside out to be loved. How she doesn’t need to set herself on fire to keep someone else warm. Demanding to have your own needs met isn’t problematic—it’s heroic, and kids are watching. They’re always watching. If you set an example that tells her the only way she’s worthy of love is by giving everyone everything, she’ll internalize that message.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“You’re telling me he’s a grumpy, overprotective hottie next-door and you’re not going to sleep with him? How wasteful.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Whenever you’re close, everything is better. The closer you are, the easier I breathe … You take away the dark, the cold. And you remind me what it’s like to want to be here.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“Sometimes you don’t have to weigh every single pro and con. Sometimes the answer is the one that just feels right.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“Grief had a way of infiltrating everything, even when you were prepared for it.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“My wish for all of us is that we love whole-heartedly and are present enough in our relationships that when we part our only regret is quantity not quality. That we all understand that the pain of loss is what gives the rest of our life color and flavor and texture.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat others when things aren’t going well.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“Sometimes you have to stop waiting for something to happen and start making it happen,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“He made me feel like I was special … He made me feel like he needed me. No one’s ever needed me.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“Some people don’t know what to do with their pain,” Naomi said, looking out the window again. “So they take it out on whoever is nearby.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Life is an adventure to be lived, not a series of repetitive days to survive.”
― Lucy Score, Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door