The Silent Waters Quotes
"The world keeps spinning because your heartbeats exist."
"We look out for each other, even on the tough days."
"You weren’t supposed to be here, but now you are."
"You have a lot to say, but you don’t know how to say it."
"The sun is a liar, that’s why God created curtains."
"Every thought I had was followed by the memory of his shushing noises attached to them. I couldn’t leave the house. If I did, he’d see me. I couldn’t speak. If I did, he’d hear me."
"The world was scary, and I had more fear than strength lately."
"It was the first time I’d ever felt a crack in the foundation of my parents’ love."
"If I’ve learned anything in life, it’s that it doesn’t help to sit and play a situation over and over again in your head. You can’t change the past, but you can shape the future with the right now."
"The tiny bookshelf I’d had since I was a small kid was now stacked high with novels, and those that didn’t fit on the shelves were standing up around the perimeter of my bedroom."
"An outstanding book always surprises you and awakens you to new ideas, new ways of looking at the world, no matter how many times the words have been read."
"You can’t just read these books and think that means you’re living. It’s their story, not yours, and it’s heartbreaking to watch someone so young toss away their chance at writing their own story."
"Someday you’re going to see the whole wide world, Maggie May, and on that day, when you step outside and breathe in your first breath, I want you to find me. No matter what, find me, because I’m going to be the one to show it to you."
"Love didn’t come with guidelines. It flowed into a person with only hope as its current."
"Sometimes words were more empty than silence."
"You don’t read to escape the world; you read to discover it."
"Sometimes our minds acted as a form of kryptonite, and we had a responsibility to our own self-worth to aggressively tell it to fuck off with its lies."
"Anyone who claimed to have their life figured out was a liar. Sometimes I wondered if there was anything to truly figure out, or if we were all walking around looking for a reason when no reason truly existed."
"I hadn’t known you could hear someone’s voice so clearly in the silent moments."
"We weren’t following anyone else’s rules, no one else’s transcript. We were writing our own story."
"Not all broken things need to be fixed. Sometimes they just need to be loved."
"If you think for a second music can’t heal people, then you’re not listening closely enough."
"Even on the days she seems okay, there’s a big part of her that’s missing."
"I know you like her, but being in a relationship with her... I don’t think that’s smart. She’s broken."
"What I worried about most was how their words affected Mama."
"She’s getting better right in front of us, and it’s like you secretly don’t want her to."
"Her smile healed. She could walk into a room, tell the worst of jokes, and make the grumpiest person in the room laugh so hard their stomach danced."
"She saw the best in the most damaged kind of people."
"No words could express the feeling in my gut."
"How could you speak when a person you were meant to trust stole your voice away?"
"Home was the place where the warmest kinds of love lived between two people."
"If only people with perfect pasts were supposed to be happy, then no love would ever exist."
"Sometimes when sitting by your lonesome, your thoughts wander to places they shouldn't."
"We must be able to decipher the truth versus the lies of our minds."
"Music was his dream, and his dream was coming true, yet still, he seemed so sad."
"When you loved someone, you let them fly away, even if you weren’t on the same flight."
"Happiness was hard to find alone in my bedroom, especially when the one you loved was out loving someone else."
"It wasn’t until the night I received a package in the mail that I allowed myself to cry over Brooks leaving."
"It's best to always say the words instead of holding them inside us."
"Music is one of the best reminders that I was never alone in this world."
"I’d forgotten that a frown could be more stunning than a smile."
"I miss you, because you’re right here. You’re standing steps away from me, yet I feel as if there is some kind of giant wall standing between us."
"Don’t let go," I whispered into her hair. "Please don’t let go."
"That night we lay on her bed, listening to music on her iPhone, each with one of the earbuds, and it was amazing how natural it felt being there in that room beside her."
"It’s not fair, you know, because every time I tried to move on your love kept pulling me back."
"My hands went to wipe the words clear, and all the words erased except the last three. I didn’t mind at all."
"Someday I’m going to marry you. We’re going to get married and be the happiest people in the world."
"Just because she was different didn’t make her a freak."
"Your mother and I may be older, but that doesn’t make us wiser in any way, shape, or form."
"What matters are the names you call yourself when you are in your own company."
"Leave when you’re ready, not when you feel pressured."
"Even when you’re scared, you keep walking. And when the voices grow louder, you run. You run, Maggie May Riley. You run and run until you’re out."
"You look at him the same way he looked at those books."
"Thanks for not being the monster I built you up to be in my mind."
"You toss and turn in your sleep at night," she said.
"It's going to be hard. It's going to be really hard. I'm not backing down, but you don't get to treat me like that, Brooks. You don't get to become something you're not."
"Everyone has scars. Some people are just better at hiding them."
"Being in love with someone didn’t mean you only loved them during the sunbeams. It meant you stood by their side during the cloudy nights, too."
"The strength you find to keep going on. Even on the mornings when you think you won’t make it, by nightfall you realized that you could."
"You promised me you’d be my anchor, and I always promised myself to be yours if you ever needed me."
"I promised you one day I’d show you the world, and that’s what I’m going to do."
"I'm here. I'm here for you, but you gotta stop punching me with your words."
"With every touch we exchanged, the waves crashed over us."