Top 100 Emery Lord Quotes
#1. We're born alone, and we die alone.
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#2. There I was, clinging to the scraps of happiness that I could finally feel again: coffee and books and an afternoon with my best friend. What right did I have, when he was gone?
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#3. So far away, but so beautiful. So powerful. I can always feel it tugging at me.
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#5. Give your family kisses from me, will you? I think I fell for all seven of you a little more every day. But mostly you, Jonah. Mostly, madly, beautifully you.
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#6. I close my eyes, trying to decipher how it feels.
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#7. Sometimes I wonder if she's whispering to hear heart: Beat. Beat. Beat. To her lungs: In, out. In, out. Like it takes all her time and energy to exist.
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#8. Love extra, even if it means you hurt extra,too
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#9. I wanted to live in Lucy and Ricky's world, where the blunders of life were righted in one neat half hour. They made it look easy.
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#10. His smile doesn't hide his own aching chest.
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#11. So, how'd you know about this place?"
"One of my buddies is from Baltimore area - I texted him."
"Saying what? 'Hey dude, know any secluded places?' He probably thinks you're a serial killer."
"I think I said 'romantic and private'.
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#12. I keep wondering if it'll ever hurt less. This...this hole in our lives." "Oh, I imagine it'll hurt less eventually. I think there will always be a hole, though. But lace is one of the most beautiful fabrics, you know. All those holes and gaps, but it's still complete somehow- still lovely.
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#13. I was too tired, too sad, too much of everything.
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#14. People out there are waiting to be on your side. But first you have to tell them where you are so they can come stand with you. I know verbalizing what you feel - what you need - can be intimidating if you've never done it before. But using your voice is a kind of strength that makes you powerful.
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#15. I guess it's like seeing beauty in simplicity and nature. In fleeting moments and even in decay.
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#16. I know this feeling of being a ghost in your own life - no one sees you, no one feels you, so you stay still as if you could actually disappear at any moment.
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#17. I dig the toe of my shoe into the dirt. "It's complicated."
"Is it? Most complicated things in life are actually pretty simple at the core. We put so much extra nonsense in the middle that we can't even see how easy it really is.
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#18. I've never felt stronger than when I was packing up my room at Richard's place. [...] I've also never felt sadder. Sad but strong. You can be both. And I am.
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#19. This was never about getting there fast. This was about being sure of my steps forward. They always call it falling in love, but for me? It was also a choice.
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#20. I felt so sad that it felt like my rib cage was collapsing in on itself.
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#21. He's the 'him' in every sentence that really matters; he's the 'he' in every song.
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#22. I can't surround myself with people who are hiding their pain beneath swagger and a grin.
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#23. You can be okay again. Just a different kind of okay than before.
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#24. Viv, I just made you wild-caught Alaskan salmon baked with mango chutney, on a bed of garlic red potatoes and arugula. While talking about an Audrey Hepburn movie. I think you are maybe falling in love with me.
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#25. I'm going to spend my whole summer changing the expressions on Jonah Daniels's face.
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#26. If you want to push someone away, I strongly recommend rambling about death and theology. That oughta do it.
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#27. His eyes are somewhere between gray and blue, and his hair is somewhere between brown and blond, and I am somewhere between hostile and attracted.
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#28. Mmmph.' I grunt this to myself in the helpless way you do when something is just so damn delicious. Yeah, I made it, but...what can I say? I'm good.
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#29. I don't remember that." He shook his head. "Of course you don't. You were in another world, completely occupied with whatever you were reading.
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#30. Oh, you know I'm only human;
I bend and fall and break
You cut me and I bleed
I'm a mess for you to make
So forget the words and give me deeds
My heart was yours to take.
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#31. Whose empire did you just overthrow?" My own.
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#32. Maybe my sadness is too much to surmount. I can't be his wings, the person who lifts him up from the sad days. I'm hopelessly earthbound, and I'm in no position to safe anyone else.
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#33. This is because she doesn't know about me picking a fight with Shruggy Jesus or rolling around topless with Lukas. My soul has already put on a blinker for the Hell exit, and now I live at hippie camp. That's like sending me into the express lane.
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#34. I vaguely remember a story about a woman who looked back while fleeing a broken city. She turned into a pillar of salt. A harsh fate, but I got the point. You can't look back when you're escaping disaster. You can't hope that someone will come after you, either.
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#35. After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.
It's not the type of love that ends.
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#36. Dee penned my name into the lyrics of her first single, "Open Road Summer.
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#37. A rigid old tree like me--it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives.
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#38. Okay," he said, leaning closer to me. "I have a proposition for you." Dear God, let it be marriage, I thought.
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#39. Because I've been having a hard time since before the day we met. She never walked away from me because of it. Her feelings for me weren't contingent on how easy or hard it was to be in my life. She doesn't have to be sunny for me. That's not how it works.
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#40. Nothing, not even sadness could be greater than the sum of us.
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#41. God," he mutters. "Most girls love it when I write them a song."
"Well, I'm not most girls," I snap at him
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#42. The glow of my birthday candles and the fairy lights would have been more than enough. But Jonah Daniels? He lit up my whole world.
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#43. Every once in a while, her temper flashes. It's like she's exhausted from beating down her demons.
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#44. I think I might love you too.
Oh, please. You do.
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#45. I want to find her in this sadness the way she did for me.
...
I have the overpowering urge to make comfort food for her. This is a legacy my dad left me. The hardwired impulse to feed people.
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#46. This past year has been a lesson in letting go and holding on, and I don't know what to make of it. I guess I do know this: find a best friend, and hang on tight.
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#47. I almost try to explain another untranslatable word--sunyata--to Jonas. The idea has Buddhist roots and several meanings, depending on context. I think emptiness is the closest word, but, in English, we infer emptiness as a void, a lack. Sunyata is open with possibility, a meditative space.
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#48. Like you had been drowning, and the book was air.
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#49. But my mom says the best revenge is living well, and I believe her.
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#50. I know it's difficult to bare your heart, but it's the least stupid thing in the world.
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#51. He said the measure of the man is in those decisions. Do you keep yourself and your family safe in harbor, always? Or do you move forward and brave the storms?
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#52. The point is that we already know it doesn't work out, but we reread them anyway, because the good stuff that comes before the ending is worth it." This
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#53. I don't mind being introduced to people's skeletons firsthand, in person. I more than don't mind it. I prefer to reach right into the closet and shake their bony hands and say hello for myself.
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#54. I think about boats, how they're powerful but so delicate compared to the fickle sea. I think about lighthouses, about safe mooring and how easy it is to crash.
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#55. I'm looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.." -Page 81
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#56. Should have, should have, should have. I'm sick of those words biting at my ankles no matter where I walk.
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#57. Depression, it settles like a shadow over your body while you sleep, and it mutes every frequency into blankness, into fog. Everyone things you can't laugh when you're depressed, but I couldn't cry either, because I couldn't FEEL.
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#58. In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.
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#59. I've prowled the dirtiest back alleys of sadness, okay? And I know what it's like to fight for your life on those mean streets. So if you need someone to vent to or someone to be quiet with or someone to talk your ear off, I can be that person. I'm not scared of the dark places.
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#60. I think I've loved you since that first day.
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#61. But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.
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#62. This is the currency of friendship, traded over years and miles, and I hope it's an even exchange someday. For now, I do what all best friends do when there's nothing left to say. We lie together in all the darkness, shoulder to shoulder, and wait for the worst to be over.
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#63. Younger girls stand with their moms alongside countless girls our age in matching outfits - blazers and horseshoe necklaces and ballet flats.
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#64. I may be stumbling through these steps, but at least I'm stumbling forward.
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#65. I'm a basket case, I thought. Who gets emotional over two letters?
But then I remembered that "no" also only has two letters.
Almost everyone in the world has cried over those.
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#66. In the moments when I feel like being truly happy is an impossible puzzle, one I'm not meant to figure out, if you have a best friend you can laugh with and a few good songs you're more than halfway there.
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#67. Matt's still watching my face closely, as if nerdy glasses are going to manifest on my face.
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#68. My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.
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#69. It's like being at an animal shelter, where I want to be the one the most skittish dog takes a liking to.
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#70. In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what's going to happen. But knowing what happens isn't the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.
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#71. I swear his looks are pure Darwinism. If he wasn't so cute, someone would have killed him for being annoying by now.
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#72. You're always preparing yourself for the thing that is most likely to happen, instead of hoping for the thing that you most want to happen.
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#73. I take a step closer to her because that's my impulse - to be near her.
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#74. We're all Elizabeths when we need to be.
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#76. My brain, my body, my whole life was on fast-forward and I couldn't push stop or even pause. How low it got after, living with what had happened. And then how numb. How much I missed feeling music in my bones.
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#77. Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.
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#78. Even the constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know.
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#79. I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need. Most of the things I do in life are for flavor, not necessity
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#80. Hasn't Daybreak shown me, day after day, that people can outlast unbelievable pain? That human hearts are like noble little ants, able to carry so much more weight than you'd expect.
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#81. I like the way the word feels against my mouth - soft, unassuming, even soothing.
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#82. Knowing what happens is different from knowing how it happens. And the getting there is the best part.
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#83. And I say a final last prayer, this one in gratitude that there are people in the world who will protect kids with a fire that makes them sprint after cars, fight systems, curse with rage. It's enough to make you believe. Maybe not in symbols; maybe not in gods. But certainly in people.
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#84. She rediscovered me under all that rubble, and that means I'll always be a little bit hers.
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#85. It's too damn hard to watch someone else get what you want.
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#86. But the point is that trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too. The point is I'm trying to create good things in the midst of the bad. Grief or no grief. And in my case, it's still somewhere in between.
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#87. I couldn't master this kind of apathy, no matter how hard I tried. I was built to care - to notice, to overanalyze, to try - in a way that felt inalterable.
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#88. But what I really need is to fucking SCREAM because this feels like a war that I got thrown into, and I don't know how I can be so tired and mad at the same time.
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#89. I struggle to maintain a facade of only mild interest in him.
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#90. Stop documenting the moment for a second, he told me. Just be in it.
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#91. Because it's all so fleeting, isn't it? The ocean existed so long before us and will stay long after us - most trees, too, and some animals. Isn't that crazy?
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#92. Last year, they curled their inky arms around me until my Technicolor world became crackling gray static. Until I felt nothing but blankness.
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#93. So, um, what is your name?"
"Oh, that's funny that you don't know! Well, maybe it's not. I've always gone by Jones here, even before I was a counselor. You don't want to guess?"
"Rumpelstiltskin," I say, which makes him burst out laughing.
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#94. My eyes fill, hot with tears. Because, apparently, casual crying is just something that I do now.
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#95. I don't feel like being touched by anyone or anything except the clouds.
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#96. You are the only person who can build emotional barriers, but you're also the only person who can topple them. Other people can't knock down the walls you've built, no matter how much they love you. You have to tear them down yourself because there's something worth seeing on the other side.
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#97. It was easy for me to be honest with him because there was nothing to lose.
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#98. I love math because there's always a right answer. It's not interpretive; it's not subjective. There is a correct destination, even if you have to hack through confusing parts to get there. That's not always true in life.
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#99. I'm a taped-together girl, but I can carry my own baggage.
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#100. A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone.
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