Isabelle Simonson > Recent Status Updates

“I collapse into his arms. And he props me up, like I knew he would. He doesn’t placate me or tell me it’s going to be okay. He doesn’t offer me fake words or try to console me, to fix me. He just lets me be.” - 166

“You can feel whatever you want. There is no right order or right way. You’re entitled to it all. Because at the end of the day, he’s not here to explain things to you, so it all just comes down to how much you can forgive…and there’s not a single other person in the world who can tell you what that threshold is.” - 114

“I was furious. For throwing himself away like that, when we loved him so much. For making us wake up every morning and find a way to go on without him.” - 367

“I accepted the cost because I wanted the prize so much. But then it went out of balance. The cost kept climbing, and the prize meant less and less. And I felt I had lost myself.” - 248

“I’ve got a whole lifetime of moments. The question’s whether I should spend any more of them with you.” - 224

“I’ll tell you the truth. I just don’t know if it will be enough for you.” - 194

“Just tell me you care. Say that I’m not the only one of us lying here at night, burning up with love for somebody who isn’t mine.” - 186

186 and 187 are soooo good, the writing?!?!

“Probably this is the meaning of heaven. You search and search, you think you glimpse it from time to time, in the aftermath of lovemaking or the bottom of a bottle of good champagne, and always it eludes you.” - 117

“Aviation happens to be at the vanguard of all that’s daring and courageous in American manhood. They are the last remaining pioneers, these men, the last fellows willing to die to expand the frontiers of human capability.” - 70

“ I’ll tell you something, the facts are the least important thing about a person.” “Oh? So what’s important?” “The fictions. The lies we tell other people, the lies we tell to ourselves. The stories we make of our lives, the heroes we fashion of our own clay. The myths of our own creation. Those are the real stuffing of a person…What makes each of us different from the other fellow.” - 32

“If you knew the world had twenty-four hours before some calamity struck, where would you go?” “I would go wherever you are. I knew it that night in Tybee. Hell, I probably knew it the second you reached for my hand in that plane. There is no force on earth that would keep me from you.” - 323

“I never left here! I’m stuck, Nate. I’m eternally twenty-five years old, frozen in place, in time, standing in that hallway, waiting for you to come back.” - 274

“It didn’t matter how much I liked him. I would rather spend a week with you than a lifetime with him. That wasn’t fair to either of us, you know?” - 221

“You’re all I want…it doesn’t matter how far I go or how long I’m away. I dream about you. Even when I know you’re with someone else—“ - 203

“‘You know the best part of not defining this? The possibilities, Izzy. That’s what we are. Possibility.’ Possibility. The same reason he loved the sunrise.” - 128

“The sun rises the next day after mothers lose their babies, after men lose their wives, after countries lose wars. The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter…the sun doesn’t care about love. It just cares about rising.” - 332

“Some people hate that about life…that it doesn’t have the common decency to wait for a profound moment to take something from you.” - 322

“Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to.” - 304

“Maybe it doesn’t matter if you need someone during the everyday moments of your life. Maybe what matters is that when you need someone, they are the one you need. Maybe needing someone isn’t about not being able to do it without them. Maybe needing someone is about it being easier if they are by your side.” - 295

“Part of me thinks if I saw you today, I’d fall in love with you all over again. And another part of me thinks that I would feel something entirely different. Better, even. Because you’re not just the girl I’m infatuated with, you’re not the girl I just met. You’re you. You’re me.” - 251

“What if I never have that feeling again? That sense where your nerve endings are so raw that you can physically feel everything that he says? That feeling where your head is light, your stomach is empty, and your legs are on fire?” - 237

“Isn’t it nice, once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is?” - 184

“I keep running. It quiets the voices in my head. It calms my nerves. It forces me to think of no one, nothing, but the sound of my breath, the banging of my heart inside my chest, and the fact that I must keep going.” - 162

“He’s going to kiss someone else, if he hasn’t already. He’s going to touch her. He’s going to want her in a way that he no longer wants me. He’s going to tell her things he never told me…And while all of this is happening, he’s not going to be thinking about me at all.” - 133-134

“Maybe that’s the difference between a friend and a sister: a friend can just listen to your problems in the present, but your sister remembers and reminds you of everything in the past.” - 70
“My heart is truly broken. And I know that even if it mends, it will look different, feel different, best differently.” - 72

“I knew then that I was sunk. I was smitten. I knew that I would give myself to him, that I would bare my soul to him, that I would let him break my heart if that’s what it came to.” - 14
“Ryan and I are two people who used to be in love. What a beautiful thing to have been. What a sad thing to be.” - 60

“I’ve never seen a love like Scarlett and Jameson’s. It was one of those fated lightning strikes, miraculous to see up close, to feel the energy between the two when they were in the same room. That is the love that lives in your veins…life is too short to miss the lightning strikes and too long to live it alone.” - 409