Christine Brae Quotes

Simon, tell me what you want. Please just tell me"…
"No more goodbyes," he whispered.

Time waits for no one.

One hour. That's all the time he'd spent with her. One hour, and yet he knew that his life had been forever changed.

I want you to remember me when I was strong, hot and hunky, funny and oversexed

Never accept a counteroffer. If they weren't good to you the first time, they've lost their chance to gain your loyalty and trust. What makes you think it will be better the next time?

No one can stop loving someone who had their heart for such a long time.

Sometimes, people take for granted the closeness that they share when life is good and there's no need for friendship or support.

I think about you every day. I see you in every happy place. I see you so clearly every time there's goodness and laughter.

I've learned that giving your heart away to someone is the bravest thing you can ever do. The one moment that it's cherished, no matter how brief, can help it to survive a lifetime.

Life isn't perfect. You take things one day at a time.

You can never replicate the feelings of a first love, Jesse. The passion, the elation, the sorrow, the pain. When it's the first time, everything is so much more magnified. You feel like it's the end of the world when you're not together. A second love is more subdued. It's more careful, more cautious. But it's still love and when it comes with respect and admiration and friendship, it trumps passion and elation any time.

I wasted five years of my life loving someone else when I should have just loved only you.

Dear Fate, Go away. Leave me be. Allow me to live with my loss, the truth, this revelation.

Love takes so much more than a few nights in bed and a few hours of conversation. In the past six months, I have also learned that it means many things to people. For the longest time, I thought that love meant staying and persevering. Today, I know that love is living, giving, believing and letting go. Sometimes it even takes twelve years for you to question whether or not you ever really had it.

You can lose yourself a million times over, but your heart will always know who you are. In every wound and place of emptiness, love provides a light that guides you through the darkness. It relentlessly seeks you out and stops at nothing to find you. Love always finds you. And when it does, it will bring you home.

Don't let the poor choices you made negate the years you spent loving him.

I wanted to carve the scars that he left me with on his skin.

Success is a funny thing. You can't really enjoy it when you're empty. Your heart is a bottomless sinkhole that swallows up everything and anything that it ingests and yet nothing can fill it. There's no sense of accomplishment; everything is meaningless.

I was in the arms of a stranger, but in the embrace of someone I had known for a hundred years.

Why did he have to leave little bits of himself in a place that was to become my only sanctuary?