Conviction Kelly Loy Gilbert Quotes

There's a place in your mind where any voices you let in slip down your spine and into your lungs and heart, become a thing you breathe and bleed.

Sometimes, in a crowd, that's when you're the most alone.

And the way she smiles at me suspends the rest of the world all around me, makes me feel like I've borrowed another life.

I think the way you know you love someone is how badly you take it when they're suffering.

There are a million ways you're wrecked by the absence of someone who belongs there with you.

The thing about prayer is it always feels like an act of faith - it forms some fragile new chamber in your heart, something empty and vulnerable that bleeds loneliness if God never answers you.

This is why I hate when people tell me I don't know how you're surviving - because it implies you get a choice. What do they think, you're actually going to die? Because that's not how it works. You don't get an escape into nothing.

I have that feeling I get sometimes around Trey, that there's a huge gap between how much you matter to a person and how much they matter to you.

And how if I were the kind of person who deserved her, everything would be more clear.