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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.