Isabelle Simonson’s Reviews > After I Do > Status Update

“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

“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