emma.

"when you lose enough, you learn to take happiness where you can find it. you don't wait for it to be handed to you."

"Real advice, though? Stop trying to imagine what the other person wants to hear; that’s actively dumb."

"All children are charming as an adjective, but you’re charming as a verb."

"I say I love you all the time, I just say it very, very quietly. I tell you when you’re in another room, or right after we hang up the phone. I tell you when you’ve got headphones on. I say it after you shut the door behind you. I say it in my head every time you look at me."

"I’m a miserable cynic (a newer development) and a dreamy romantic (always have been), and it’s such a terrible combination that I don’t know how to tolerate myself."

"It’s always okay to go home. Anytime you feel uncomfortable or scared, never worry about what anyone else is going to think. Your house is a safe place, and you love being there, and that’s something to be proud of, not embarrassed about."

"Being vulnerable is a risk. Love—romantic, platonic, familial, it doesn’t matter what kind of love—is a risk."

"Every time you hurt someone, you break off a little piece of them. Not only do they have to live with that broken piece, then the next person who comes along has to figure out a way to spackle that spot. Your behavior has ripple effects."

"You feel complete in my arms. You feel like my home."

"I want to be here to bring you coffee. I want to take you out to dinner and order the same food and hear you recite the odds that we would have met. I want to hate-attend fancy social events together. I want you to call me for help—without an apology already on the tip of your tongue. I want to feel like I can kiss you again by your car at the end of the night... I want you in my bed."

"The worst thing I've done on a date? Ask who her favorite serial killer is. Under a bridge. In the dark."

"Metanoia: é quando um acontecimento aparece na sua vida e o faz despertar, provocando uma mudança interior. Sempre para o melhor.