Samantha Sotto Quotes

The gnomons's shadow falls where it falls - and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us.

Meet. Date. Run.

But I am half a man, wholly in love, and so I have chosen to let you leave me instead.

Death is never swift ... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After

Why did I leave you? I loved you too much to stay.

Dying is not the real tragedy, Shelley."
"It's not?"
"Forgetting is.

She had become quite an adept at the art of escape...

I'm sorry, but you just can't fit fabulous into a backpack.

Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.

I just didn't think you actually had to die to live forever.

I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be.

I dream about home.. and it just makes it difficult to wake up.

History is what men choose to remember. Truth is what a man cannot forget.

She finally found the strength to wake up to the emptiness inside her.

Growing old is to be set free. It is a slow and long-simmering process that extracts you from what you are really made of. But it requires acceptance. You cannot put a flailing chicken in a boiling pot. You must accept the heat and the pain with serenity so that the full flavors of your life maybe released.

For once he wanted to wake up the next day and feel something.

If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.

...but youth was for making such mistakes.

I didn't want the 'ever' that came after happily. I didn't ... don't want to be the one left behind.

I said you weren't inconsequential. No one is. We change at least one person's life just by being born. If you don't believe me, go ask your mother. The fellows who write history books may not think that's so special. I happen to disagree. Isabelle and her family may be long gone, but because they lived, regardless of how small their lives may have been, I believe they are worth remembering, even if only by strangers.
- BEFORE EVER AFTER

You can make a child believe a lot of things. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny ... just about anything really, except love. You cannot make a child believe you love him if you don't

There are other ways to live forever.

Children know when they're loved. It's when you grow up that you're more easily fooled.

You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv.