B.N. Toler Quotes & Sayings

She's a very drastic woman. Not even I could have predicted she'd do something like that. — B.N. Toler

Moments come and go; quick flickers in time. Yet those moments can have the profoundest impact on our lives. Either we seize them, and wield them to our needs, or we let them go. It's the moments we let go that, I believe, remain with us strongest - because regret is something that never leaves us. — B.N. Toler

The brothers are so different, polar opposites in fact, that I find myself drawn to each one for different reasons. One is so strong and responsible; so much so, not even death can keep him from taking care of those he loves. The other, broken and lost, wishing time could rewind on one hand, but using any method necessary to forget time on the other. — B.N. Toler

It isn't intimate or sexual; it's the comfort in finding someone who finally understands. — B.N. Toler

Grief. What a horrid thing it is, yet I hold tightly to it. The agony I feel is how I remember he was here, that he existed. — B.N. Toler

DESPERATELY SEEKING EPIC You're my father. I don't know much about you. I know your name is Paul James, you're a thrill seeker, and once upon a time you did stunts and people called you 'Epic.' I've been told you don't know about me. That it's complicated. But for me it's simple. Here's the thing: I'm twelve years old . . . and I'm dying. And as much as this could crush my mother, I have to meet you before I go. In time, I'm sure she'll understand. She's still in love with you. So, Epic, if you read this, please come back. You don't have to be my dad. You don't even have to tell me you love me or you're sorry. Just come see me. — B.N. Toler

Not a cruel cold, more like wounded, like a warning to stay away; a broken cold. — B.N. Toler

If shame had a sound, it would sound like an agonizing scream, but unfortunately it's a silent emotion. One I've been hiding from for years. — B.N. Toler

Home is a place where love resides and rests easy. Love should always be easy. — B.N. Toler

I need to let him go. But hearts don't work like light switches; they don't just flick on and off. They swell rapidly with love and bleed out slowly with pain. — B.N. Toler

They say the opposite of love isn't hate, but indifference. — B.N. Toler

Forgiveness would be hard, but it would be worth it. — B.N. Toler

Words have been the fine threads that have tied me to this world, forbidding me to disappear — B.N. Toler

And there it is. The suck. It's been one day and he's already sucking me back in. — B.N. Toler

Broken doesn't mean we're valued any less, it just means we've loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we've lost part of ourselves. — B.N. Toler