Quotes by John Corey Whaley

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if youre thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

Jealous of the crazy gay kid. That doesnt sound right.Hey, Sol, she said, her tone getting serious for a second. Those are two things about you out of a million. Dont box yourself in.

Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.

Weve learned from this that death can hurt us. It can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up a night. But weve also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It cannot take away the love and support of our family and friends. It cannot make us lose our unending faith in world and in God. It has saddened us, but it will not prevail.

We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.

Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that its okay, that its all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.

But she believed there was a thin line between accepting ones fears and giving in to them altogether.

Dr. Webb says that life is so full of complications and confusion that humans oftentimes find it hard to cope. This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their money and not speaking to their relatives and never going home for Christmas and never eating anything with chocolate in it.Life, he says, doesnt have to be so bad all the time. We dont have to be so anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best as we can.

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think Im just haunting them.

Thats the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But its not that easy, okay? You cant just force us all to be how you liked us.

We let them help because they needed it, not us. We didnt let them help us because we needed it, we let them help us because inside of humans is this thing, this unnamed need to feel as if we are usefel in the world. To feel as if we have something significant to contribute.---Cullen

They say the heart is just a muscle. They say it plays absolutely no role in our emotions and that its use as a symbol for love is based on archaic theories of it being the seat of the soul or something ridiculous like that. But as I quietly listened to every word she was saying to me, as each syllable shot a sharp arrow through the phone and into my ear, I swear I felt like my entire chest would collapse in on itself. I knew this feeling. They say a heart cant really break because theres nothing to be broken. But see, I once had to leave everyone I loved, and it felt this same way.

Death can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up at night. But we’ve also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It cannot take away the love and support of our friends and family.

Youre both living these lives you didnt choose to live in a world full of people telling you what thats supposed to mean. Thats messed up.

Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family. A sibling represents a persons past, present, and future, he says. Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.

All that time Id spent worrying about why Im here and how Im supposed to live had kept me from remembering that Jeremy Pratt will never be back. His people will never have him again. He is Jeremy Pratt who died and stayed dead and will never get a second chance. And even though that hand that spent the last five years holding hers was somehow doing it again, it wasnt Jeremy Pratts anyone

I thought maybe a day was coming when Id stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point Id just start living, no questions asked.

Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. Theres no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought youd want to return.

Maybe my times running out, but at least Im living. And if thats what it is for you, being here inside where nothing ever happens, where you think youre safe, then stay. Stay right here and you let me know how that works for you.Bacause Im gessing itll never be enough.