Karole Cozzo > Quotes

“It's really hard to say the words I love you when you know you'll likely never hear them back”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“I am so alone, all the time, even when I'm surrounded by people. Sometimes I get really tired of the walls, and I wish I had the strength to just go at them with a sledgehammer.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Really. I'm a firm believer in new beginnings. Looking back all the time... It really starts to hurt your neck." He shrugs carelessly. "If you don't want to be defined by your past, you shouldn't have to be.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Keep Rolling After a Fall

“I noticed how easily our hands fit together the one time you let me touch you. I noticed that you seemed lonely, really, really lonely, even though I didn’t know why.” His eyelashes flutter as his eyes flash back and forth between mine. “Which is the most ridiculous thing in the world, considering how badly someone wants to spend time with you. Every single day.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Why does loving someone always have to hurt? The risk just seems bigger than the reward.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“... There is a lens through which we view every single other person in this world. With every piece of information we gain about them, the lens is adjusted, ever so slightly, blurring... coloring... changing how we see them.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Phillip's Autistic. He just wants to be left alone, because something about his neurological make-up leaves him unequipped to deal with the sights, sounds, smells, and touches of our human world.
I don’t know how well equipped the rest of us are, but a lot more so than Phillip I suppose.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“I'm not the girl who's solely defined by the people around her. I can be alone and still feel strong. Know who I am.”
― Karole Cozzo

“Teenage guys are not supposed to be concerned like this. They are supposed to tell fart jokes, and comment on girls' boobs, and not really pay attention when something is bothering a friend. It's really, really difficult when they convince you they can be something else entirely - a human being, one who truly cares, especially when they're less yours and more someone else's.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Fair doesn't mean equal, fair means everyone gets what they need.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Fresh starts, okay? Maybe you're not ready to take it, but at least know one's here.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Keep Rolling After a Fall

“Maybe I'm done with my part. Maybe I was just a crutch till you got strong again.”
― Karole Cozzo

“I can hardly let the fear of my expectations falling short, the idea of people letting me down, dictate how we live around here.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“I could reach these kids, and they reached back. They put a Band-Aid on some type of wound I'd never quite located.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“You remember getting noticed in the wrong way more than you remember getting noticed in the right way, you start just wanting to blend in. You start not wanting to be noticed at all.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“They might not say it out loud, but they'd still be thinking it. I'd almost rather hear them say it, hear what they really think, than have to wonder what they're saying when I'm not listening.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“I think you're beautiful. And rare. Fierce but... delicate at the same time.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Keep Rolling After a Fall

“Nobody can make you feel guilty. You feel guilty because you know there's a reason to feel guilty.”
― Karole Cozzo, How To Keep Rolling After a Fall

“Parents are funny creatures.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“I'm said, I think. I frown into space for a minute. No. I'm lonely.
It's a sensation that Pax used to drive away. Now he makes the feeling worse than ever. Because nothing makes you feel lonelier than someone being with you... but not.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Keep Rolling After a Fall

“Stress is absorbed through osmosis around here.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“But you're so damn vibrant and beautiful and... whole.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Keep Rolling After a Fall

“Even though we couldn’t find anything else in the darkness, we had no trouble finding each other. His hands fell to my hips, like they belonged there. I felt myself being pressed against the rickety wooden shelves, the firm, warm heat of his bare chest against my damp skin. His breath bathed my face, nervous, and sweet, and excited.”
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“Tightly. So tightly that I feel like he's the one thing holding me together and so it's safe to collapse. I bury my face against his firm chest, feel his biceps tightening around my back. It feels so good to have him holding me again.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Keep Rolling After a Fall

“And here sits this person who wants to look at me, who makes me feel as if there's still something worthwhile to be found there.”
― Karole Cozzo

“There’s a particular kind of energy radiating from school on the first day, part nervous freshman energy, part rambunctious senior energy, and part look-how-I-reinvented-myself-over-the-summer energy.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“This is ridiculous. You seem hell-bent on seeing on the good in me, yet you expect it to work some other way for you. I can't accept that.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Keep Rolling After a Fall

“My life might never be perfect, but I'm really glad it's mine. I happen to really like my life now, too much to care about what anyone else has to say about it. I like it enough to fight for it.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“Fear's more powerful than desire, I guess. I'm no braver know, anyway, so it's silly to think about.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“If we're gonna hang out, there are going to be some things you can do that I can't. It is what it is. My world's limited in some ways, yeah, but there's no sense in trying to equalize it by giving up things you like.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Keep Rolling After a Fall