Emiliana Contreras Quotes

Thank you, Cole for teaching me what love feels like. And most of all thank you for never giving up on me even when I was ready to give up on myself. ~ Claire Contreras

They say it takes twenty-one days to break a habit. It's been approximately one thousand eight hundred and twenty six since I last held her hand in mine and I'm still waiting for the remnants of her to break off of me. ~ Claire Contreras

I've lived in pain since the moment I lost you. I've learned to live with it, but I haven't learned to accept it. ~ Claire Contreras

Because walking away isn't that simple anymore, and even if it was, I wouldn't let her. ~ Claire Contreras

She fixed me and broke me all at once. ~ Claire Contreras

You can try to steer your life in a certain direction all you want, but ultimately, the wind is in charge of your sail. ~ Claire Contreras

Finding a guy isn't a problem. Keeping a guy is a problem, and finding the guy is a complete catastrophe. ~ Claire Contreras

All of this or something better is happening to me right now in perfect harmony with everyone else in the universe. Thank you, God [Universe, Higher Self, or whatever you envision as the Higher Power], because I know it's already coming my way! ~ Mirtha Contreras

All thoughts of who may or may not be my family vanish when I look into his green eyes, because he's my family. My home. ~ Claire Contreras

Work and wine, maintaining sanity for unhappily married women everywhere. ~ Claire Contreras

I HATE FIGHTING. I hate being wrong, but I hate fighting more than I hate being wrong. I'm just not good at the grudge-holding thing. I get mad, scream about it and let go. ~ Claire Contreras

it was that life is short, and we need to live it to the fullest. It's something I understand, but still struggle to follow through with some days. ~ Claire Contreras

Blake, if the world was for sale, I'd buy it for you. ~ Claire Contreras

Pain isn't just losing the person you love. Pain is losing the person you love, seeing them with somebody else, and not interfering because you know you can't give them the life they deserve. ~ Claire Contreras

I love you too, baby," he said in a low voice that makes me shiver. Cole has been saying those words to me for the past nine years. I've never said them back. ~ Claire Contreras

One thing I did learn throughout my life was that the weight of unspoken words always felt heavier than the burden of the consequences they carried. ~ Claire Contreras

but I was sad without him. I missed him. And there was absolutely nothing wrong with missing somebody. ~ Claire Contreras

For my dream, in particular, I was able to find a balance. I wish that would be true for everybody else. There's always a way. ~ Claire Contreras

I'm not saying I hate you right now; I'm saying that if I had a knife in my hand, you would be bleeding. ~ Claire Contreras

Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable. ~ Jose Contreras

If this is love . . . real love . . . like I've always thought, it's nothing more than a vicious game of Russian roulette. The gun clicks when it comes to you, and you cringe in anticipation that this may just be the last breath you take, but then it continues on, until the next round . . . and the next. Then there's that one time when it clicks and hits you, and you just can't walk away. ~ Claire Contreras

You look beautiful. I'm so happy I finally agreed to go on this date with you." That makes me laugh. "Really? Were you being hounded relentlessly?" "Like you wouldn't believe," he says, raising his eyebrows. "It's been exhausting having to dodge your advances. ~ Claire Contreras

For anybody who thinks love only exists in fairy tales - Love is limitless. Believe. ~ Claire Contreras

Jon. Snow. Is. A. Huge. Deal. ~ Claire Contreras

Each Failure is like a violent slap across the face with a lecture of waking up and once again striving from the very bottom with dedication, discipline and sacrifice. ~ Ricardo Rosales Contreras

I didn't tell Papa that Petrona was raped.

I didn't tell Cassandra I had written to Petrona and that she had written back.

I didn't correct Mama when she assumed the photograph Petrona had sent was a new photograph. I didn't tell her it was actually printed the year we fled Colombia.

I didn't tell Mama that the man in the photograph was Gorrion.

I was the only one with all the pieces. I was the only one that knew that Petrona had made a home with a man who had betrayed her, that she had chosen to keep the baby, that this new life she had fed from her breasts was something I had to make up to her and the only thing I could do was keep silent about what I knew. After all, who am I to judge? As her photo blurred, I thought: even oblivion is a kindness. ~ Ingrid Rojas Contreras

I'm not ready to let go."
"You have to."
"I can't."
"Your wings aren't clipped, and I won't be the reason you start thinking you can't fly," he whispered, coming closer, his wine-infused breath mingling with mine. "You can fly, you know?"
"I know I can. I want to fly with you. ~ Claire Contreras

THEY SAY THE best way to move on is to let go. As if letting go is the easy part. As if trying to dim or erase three years of memories, good and bad, is something you can do in one day. ~ Claire Contreras

Tessa." His tone and the way he leaned in made me shut my mouth. "When it comes to you, there's never any competition. You blow everyone else out of the water. ~ Claire Contreras

placed my hand there to control its throbbing. I ~ Claire Contreras

We are what we allow ourselves to become. Never settle for less than what you deserve. Keep fighting the good fight! Keep giving your all to achieve, receive and succeed ~ Cecibel Contreras

She loved me, but not enough to stay. Not enough to put me first. ~ Claire Contreras

You want something? Go and get it. You have the power to be something. It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from. You have power. So go, be!" From ~ Claire Contreras

You're the only one that fucking matters...only you...always. ~ Claire Contreras

Multiply me when necessary,
make me disappear
when peremptory.
Transform me into light when there is shadow,
into a star
when in the desert. ~ Ingrid Rojas Contreras

What are you doing, Jensen," I whispered.
"What do you want me to do, Mia?" he whispered back.
"I don't want you to do anything."
"Then I'm not doing anything," he said just as low. ~ Claire Contreras

I blurted out a sob at the sound. Papa's voice fit into a groove in my ear, deserted for so many years, now full of his timbre. How easy it was to recognize this once lost detail. There was a home for every departed thing. ~ Ingrid Rojas Contreras

He's like your drug. No matter how far you go or what crazy measures you take to stay away from him, you always end up back where you started. ~ Claire Contreras

You know nothing, Jon Snow!" "Who ~ Claire Contreras

Sometimes we let the first ones get away, but it teaches us to cherish the second ones that much more. ~ Claire Contreras

Would you believe me if I told you that I've spent these last few years regretting every decision I made before you left?" he asked into the darkness.
"Considering who you married, yes."
"I could have married any random woman and I would still feel this way because she wasn't you. ~ Claire Contreras

I wanted to yell at the television like Mama and Papa, but I had to learn how to properly do it. I gathered that being a mouse was better than being a mosquita muerta, and being a snake was better than being a man, because flies pretending to be dead could be crushed, mice were shy, and men were persecuted; but everybody always avoided snakes. ~ Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Let me go," I said, my gaze dropping to his hand, holding the hem of my jacket. He closed his eyes briefly.
"I don't know how," he whispered. ~ Claire Contreras

This is life. This is what happens when you stop living in the moment. People grow up. They change, they move on, and you find yourself wishing you had looked up in time to walk with them. ~ Claire Contreras

Love is beautiful, shattering, moving, haunting. Love is everything. ~ Claire Contreras

You never know when your ladder is going to wobble or break," he would say. "So no matter how high up you are, you need to be mindful of the ones holding the legs on the ground. They have the power to pull you down or help you if you fall. And more importantly, you never know when you'll be the one at the bottom of that ladder, because that happens - tables can turn quickly in life. ~ Claire Contreras

Tessa," he said over and over and over like a mantra. "My Tessa. ~ Claire Contreras

It's like we're on a rocket ship that we were just painting, and suddenly it took off and we're holding onto the ship with our fingernails. ~ Esteban Contreras