Isabelle Simonson > Recent Status Updates

“Favorite word?” he whispers. I don’t even hesitate: “You.” - 403

“I’ve been waiting for you to come home for eleven years. I’ll go anywhere you go.” - 396

“If he is that person for you, you won’t be able to just be friends. You’ll want to give him everything, to show him every way you love him.” - 347

“I’d take any amount of time with her. I would have taken anything I could get. I don’t regret one moment of loving her, even though it still hurts that she’s gone.” - 347

“Every tiny step was a first, everything we did together we would only do for the first time, with this one person, our whole lives. It seemed a forgone conclusion that we’d be together forever. We hadn’t said love yet. We hadn’t made promises. But it was as impossible to imagine falling out of love with Elliot as it was to imagine holding my breath for an hour.” - 308

“I like living alone, but would rather live with you. I like sleeping alone, but would rather have you in my bed. I like having friends over for Thanksgiving, but would rather it be just the two of us, doing our first Thanksgiving as a couple, eating turkey off the bone, cuddling on the floor together.” - 276

“Why can’t everyone be like you?” “I can be enough of your world that it feels like everyone is.” - 227

“Admissions changed things. Admissions make feelings intensify simply because they are given space to breathe. Admissions lead to love, and admitting love is like tying yourself to a train track.” - 215

“Doing that might not mean anything to Emma…but it means everything to me.” - 196

“I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on when she walked out.” - 131

“What good is a soul, really? It lives in the mind. A piece you cannot see or touch. A prize you are told to shield for a time you cannot know. Easy enough to part with something so abstract when the alternative is freedom. When the promise is love.” - 448

“I have wanted you since the night we met, and every moment since. I want the life you speak of, that belongs to no one else. I want to feel and love and live as boldly as I please. I want to be like you. But most of all, I want to be with you.” - 358

“On the day they were first introduced, it felt like a reunion. As if they’d known each other all their lives, and forgotten, until the moment when they met again.” - 345

“You are the kind of bloom that thrives in any soil.” - 311

“One thing you learn when you live as long as we do, is that nothing’s permanent. Who you are isn’t who you have to be.” - 303

“What is the point of loving someone you are doomed to lose? Of holding on to someone who cannot hold on to you?” - 252

“Is it life if there is never death to balance it? Or is its brevity what makes it beautiful?” - 212

“Life is small and the world is big, and even when it feels like it’s falling down, it’s only falling down on you.” - 185

“Not all sins were boulders, that most in fact were more like pebbles. An unkind thought. A hungry heart. Small weights like greed and envy and want things (that didn’t seem to her like sins at all, but apparently they added up).” - 7

“This is the kind of love that war start over. But it will leave the world better than it found it.” - 384

“ How lucky I was to be here, to exist in the same timeline as her, to have been standing in the right spot after a concert, at the wrong moment in my life, but for a tub ended up here anyway. I would go in and out of doors with her for the rest of our lives. She was it. She always was and she always would be.” - 384

“You’re the best thing to ever happen to me, even if I had to wait for it. I’m just going to be grateful that it happened at all.” - 367

“We had a love that would never leave the world better than it found it. But it was what we had. And it was better than nothing.” - 368

“I thought I was going to have to watch you have a life with someone else and that one day I was going to have to move on and do the same thing. But there would’ve been a morning sixty years from now when someone would search for a gravestone of a woman they don’t know to sprinkle their grandfather‘s ashes over it in honor of a final request that nobody understands. I could never not love you. I tried.” 367

“I’m terrible at not loving you.” “Don’t ever get good at it.” - 358

“I want to give you something that never ends…a love that never fades. Someone you can’t wait to get home to, every day for the rest of your life. Something eternal.” - 366

“Somebody is going to get hurt. No matter what we do, someone will lose. I guess the least selfish thing would be for it to be us.” - 356

“I was sand between his fingers. I was his girlfriend and his wife. I was the mother of his children, the witness to his existence, the last word he breathed. All in one second. All in one kiss.” - 357

“I’d go through any door with you.” - 346

“I’ll pretend with you. But I want you to know the truth. And the truth is I’m in love with you.” - 353

“I’d rather have you in secret than not at all.” - 354

“Most of us live normal, unremarkable lives for most of our lives. It’s in those rare small moments when we’re called to action that define us.” - 340-341

“She could be the love of my life, even if we only ever had this.” - 344

“I would have been happier with you.” - 302

“He was the silver lining coming through a crack in the door in a dark room. The scent of home, a soft landing, a port in the storm. The only person in the world I trusted to catch me when I’m falling. And how can you not love someone who’s that? You can’t help it even if you want to.” - 321

“That’s the problem with chemistry…you can’t explain it. It just is…even if you wish it wasn’t.” - 288

“Love is self-sustaining. It doesn’t get weak and die when you don’t feed it. Even when I put it away, locked it up, shut in the deepest recesses of my heart, I still loved her in the dark. I could love her from a distance. I could love her silence. I could love her without even wanting to. And I did.” - 278