Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Grace

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Grace.


Loading...
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
“Sometimes we can’t find our future until we settle our past.”
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Forever and One Day

Jacqueline Simon Gunn
“We must love those close to us, all the time, every day. Moments only happen once. Make them matter.”
Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Jacqueline Simon Gunn
“Too many times, I confused my melancholy for loneliness and sought comfort in the wrong arms. Too many times, I surrendered myself to my own illusions, trying to find something that I didn’t understand. Always searching for an elusive affection, desire so pervading it was painful in its insatiability. Every time I held it close, it slipped through my fingers, my body resting in the depth of others only to find myself shivering in shallow water.

When you wrapped yourself around me, I knew it was different. A subtlety I had never known, in your embrace. Our restless, wandering souls came together, ideas and passions transforming into redamancy. I know it now – that elusive something I had always wanted – with you, every day, in every kiss, the way you touch me, in dark and light, in the illumination of all of the little things, with hundreds of no matter whats and the taste of forever.”
Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Jacqueline Simon Gunn
“I think what we want is within us from the beginning. I think fear can distract us from knowing the truth of who we are and what we want.”
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Forever and One Day

Jacqueline Simon Gunn
“I wanted to tell you that life is a lot shorter than you could ever have imagined. And those people that love you that you think will be there forever, won’t be. I wanted to tell you not to waste your time pretending to live without really living. Take your shoes off when everyone has theirs on. Wear what you want. Say how you feel. And say it often. Say it when you’re most afraid to. Love so hard that it hurts. Don’t pretend to be someone to make other people comfortable, and don’t let others steal your confidence because they are struggling with their own.

I want to hear that you lived your life free of the restrictions that others wanted to choke you with. I want to hear that you had the courage to risk it all, once. That you soaked every last tear out of that heartbreak and are stronger for it. I want to hear that you feel the wind and the rain and the sun. I want to hear you scream so loud that the clouds shake. Because this is all you have. All we have. Right now. I don’t want you to wake up one day and realize that you spent so much time worrying about life that you forgot to live it.”
Jacqueline Simon Gunn

year in books
Alice Liu
7,536 books | 132 friends


David D...
199 books | 166 friends

Brenda
854 books | 35 friends

Daniella
237 books | 26 friends

Larry M...
0 books | 89 friends

Lowell
8 books | 26 friends

Ken
Ken
5 books | 79 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Grace

Lists liked by Grace