Cassia Leo Quotes & Sayings

Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness. — Cassia Leo

Laney always took a different lane, but we always arrived at the same place. — Cassia Leo

This is that moment; the moment where everything slows down and nothing is ever the same. — Cassia Leo

Love is a strange concept. That the very sight of someone, the very mention of their name, can cause an intense chemical reaction inside you is crazy. — Cassia Leo

Where we love is home — Cassia Leo

I don't know how long we stand there holding each other. It could be ten minutes, an hour, or a day. All I know is that when I finally let go, I can breathe. I can rest. I can live knowing that my baby girl is happy. Knowing that she felt my love. — Cassia Leo

We don't understand how much those small moments of closeness mean to us until they're taken away. — Cassia Leo

To love is to destroy pain.
I love your heart. — Cassia Leo

I was eighteen when I got lost in Houston, and in him I found myself. They say love is just two souls recognizing each other. With Houston and me it was more like two souls staring into a mirror, my left hand aligned with his right, our hearts skipping a beat at the same moment, our lungs choking on the same noxious air, our scars as perfectly aligned as mountains and fault lines. If ever two souls were perfectly right and perfectly wrong for each other, it would be us. — Cassia Leo

Having a mental illness is like riding a really fast merry-go-round that never stops. There's no escape. You're stuck. But once in a while, you can give the operator some good drugs and he'll slow it down a little; just enough for you to see the trees and the normal people as they stroll by. But that ride operator needs to be supplied often. And sometimes, like any typical junkie, he's just plain unreliable. He stops showing up and you're spinning again. You can't see clearly. — Cassia Leo

You're my everything. I want to be your everything, too. — Cassia Leo

I want to leave you dazed and confused for a week with nothing but my name on your lips. — Cassia Leo

I need you to know how serious I am first." He takes my face in his hands again and I draw in a sharp breath. "Promise me you'll wait for me and I promise I'll tell you everything. — Cassia Leo

George, we've slept together plenty of times before. We should be able to do it for a few nights without your penis ending up in my vagina. — Cassia Leo

This is the way we fall. First we lose our balance, teetering precariously on the edge of uncertainty, until, mercilessly, gravity takes over. You can't outshine gravity. — Cassia Leo

Holding hands is like giving someone a mini-hug. — Cassia Leo

You can't let your past define your future. Once you get that figured out, you begin to understand the joy of living in the present. And the present is full of tiny gifts that we can only see when we stop looking behind and ahead of us. Sometimes, these gifts land right at our feet. Sometimes, it's our feet that carry us toward them, running at full-speed until our hearts nearly give out. Either way, never stop noticing them, and never stop wishing. — Cassia Leo

He blinks back tears. There's so many things you don't know about me that I need to tell you, so you'll understand everything that happened back then and afterward. — Cassia Leo

Fate is death. No one escapes it. But if you stick around long enough, you might find someone to help you cheat fate for a while. And when you can't cheat anymore, and fate finally catches up to you, maybe it won't seem so scary with that someone by your side. — Cassia Leo

How can you still love me after everything I've done to you?" "How can I not? You're the fucking love of my life. You don't stop loving someone just because they've hurt you. Yes, what you did hurt me, but I gain nothing if I stay angry with you. But I might gain everything by forgiving you. You're my everything. I just want you back. — Cassia Leo

I want to invade the space all around you until everywhere you look all you see is me." I trace my tongue along the delicate curves of her ear and she sighs. "I want to occupy the space inside you until you don't know the difference between my heartbeat and yours. I want to be your everything. — Cassia Leo

Once you see the good in someone, it's hard not to notice the good in everyone. — Cassia Leo

No one knows how to love me like you and no one knows how to hurt me like you. — Cassia Leo

It's funny that when the one person you live for is ripped out of your life you can still find a way to convince yourself it's for the best and that you will eventually get over it.
What a joke. — Cassia Leo

Fear is blinding; it can make us miss the warning signes flashing right in front of our eyes. It can also make you miss those brilliant flashes of color, when the world isn't so gray. But, if you think about it, being afraid isn't such a bad thing. Because fear is a reminder that you still have something to lose.
Something Worth holding onto. — Cassia Leo

Houston, I'd rather have the truth than this ring." "That ring is my promise to tell you the truth, but only when the time is right. — Cassia Leo

Love is not black and white. It's not even gray. Love is every shade of color in the spectrum, changing with every ray of light given and stolen. — Cassia Leo

It's funny how nothing really turns out the way we expect it to, no matter how certain the future seems. I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit — Cassia Leo

Conformity and exclusion. If you're not the best or the — Cassia Leo

Then, she let it go. — Cassia Leo

Fate can save you and it can kill you. Either way, fate binds us through an invisible web of circumstances. Change one undesirable fate and another desirable fate is canceled out. — Cassia Leo

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. — Cassia Leo

He squeezes my hand, though he's silent for a moment. The baby was a part of us. It always hurts when you lose a part of yourself. — Cassia Leo

You'll always be the deepest scar on my heart. — Cassia Leo

I wouldn't miss the chance to see your sexy lips wrapped around my hookah. — Cassia Leo

I think I'm finally starting to realize that love isn't about fixing things or people. It's about sticking around when things can't be fixed. — Cassia Leo

I think I need you to save me this time. — Cassia Leo

I clutch my chest as I try to keep breathing. "What? I don't understand. You ... you said we couldn't get married. You ... you broke my heart." "It was the biggest mistake of my life. I could see it then and I can see it even more now. Letting you go was the single stupidest thing I've ever done. — Cassia Leo

This is yours. It's my promise to you. I swear I'm going to do everything I can to get that ring on your finger. — Cassia Leo

Basically, love and hate activate similar circuits in the brain, but hate also activates the circuits used for rational thought. Which means, when you hate my adorable lips, you're thinking quite clearly, unlike when you think of how I love you and you turn unto a pile of irrational mush. In other words, you love me with all your circuits. — Cassia Leo

Sleeping accommodations are basically the same. I — Cassia Leo

My comebacks aren't nearly as sharp as my shiv. Come inside and I'll show you. — Cassia Leo

But, honestly, I hope you'll tell me that I'm enough."
She smiles. "You're more than enough. You're my circuit breaker. — Cassia Leo

I'm going to take my time and you're going to like it. — Cassia Leo

Maybe espresso is one of those universal words because it's a little like life. You have to enjoy life slowly, savoring every single moment so you don't miss anything important. Like your brother's despair and your own self-destruction. Like surprise honeymoons and your kids growing up before your very eyes.
Slow down, pay attention, and drink it in. And don't forget to share it with the ones you love. — Cassia Leo

How can you love someone who doesn't think they deserve to be loved? — Cassia Leo

They say love is just two souls recognizing each other. — Cassia Leo

The pain is just a subtle reminder of how alive you made me feel. — Cassia Leo

If love is a drug, then it's the kind that should be prescribed. — Cassia Leo

You see, in real life, there are no happy endings, because real life, real love, has no ending. So all of this ... This is our happy beginning. — Cassia Leo

We all remember people the way we want to remember them. — Cassia Leo

Why? Why do you have to leave?" "Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later. — Cassia Leo

I love you. Nothing else can explain how crazy you make me. And I want you to stay with me, tonight, tomorrow, and ... for as long as it takes to make this right, because I know everything seems completely fucked up right now. But it won't always be that way. We'll get it right, won't we? — Cassia Leo

It doesn't have to end, does it?"
"I hope it never ends. — Cassia Leo

You can't erase love without erasing yourself. — Cassia Leo

You're my mess, and that makes you a beautiful mess, — Cassia Leo

Ooh, so generous. You're like Brad Pitt. You're hot and you love poor people. — Cassia Leo

You're one tough egg to crack. You know that? You're like a Kinder egg wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside an enigma. — Cassia Leo

We may only ever have one great, passionate love, but sometimes it's best to leave that kind of love in the past. A love like that can't last forever. — Cassia Leo

Claire, the love of my life and mother of my child. The owner of my heart and soul and the inspiration for every song I write. If you ever doubt how much I love you, I'll always be there to remind you. And if I should leave this Earth before you, I'll haunt the fuck out of you. — Cassia Leo

Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough. — Cassia Leo

Fate is for fairy tales. It's a romantic notion. Luck is what happens when you're in the right place at the right time ... with the right person. — Cassia Leo

I'd like to think there's a simple reason why people visit reflection pools. When you look into one on a clear day, you see your own mirror image. When there's a storm, and the rain is splashing the surface, or the wind whips the water up in rippling waves, it becomes impossible to see a clear image of anything. It's easy to feel as if you're lost in the storm. But storms don't last. — Cassia Leo

You can't choose the road you take; you can only hope to avoid the potholes. — Cassia Leo

Hope.
If I had to explain to someone what part of the human body carries the spirit I would say it is the same part that carries hope. You can't survive without hope. — Cassia Leo

Reality is a gravitational pull, yanking us back down to earth when we least expect it. — Cassia Leo

The world can fall to pieces around us, but in the end, we'll always make it back to us. — Cassia Leo

Then maybe you'll believe me when I say ... you're pretty fucking special, Laney Hill. — Cassia Leo

I guess that's the way secrets are. They're only heavy when you're holding them. As soon as you let go, the significance of keeping those secrets hidden blows away and everything falls into place. — Cassia Leo

There's a little blackness inside all of us. — Cassia Leo

That time of day when the sun hasn't come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It's an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you've been given another chance to get it right. — Cassia Leo

Wade would never write you a song, but I've already written you three. — Cassia Leo

You have my whole heart. — Cassia Leo

I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit reality, because life is not going to cooperate. Maybe this makes me a defeatist, but I'd prefer to think of myself as realist. — Cassia Leo

You're afraid of being vulnerable, physically and emotionally. You're afraid of loving completely. Most of all, you're afraid you'll live your whole life without ever being truly happy because you don't even know what it is that will make you happy. You're afraid of not being passionate enough or brave enough to live. But you are. You are brave because not only did you go to the library with me today, you were the one who insisted we go. — Cassia Leo

If ignorance is bliss, believing lies is orgasmic. — Cassia Leo

Are you going to give her gonorrhea too, or was that gift just for me? — Cassia Leo

Eventually, you're gonna have to let someone in. — Cassia Leo

How did they even fit you inside a jail cell with a head that big?" "Same way I got inside you. Lots of lube, baby. — Cassia Leo

Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart. — Cassia Leo

You never know you're making a mistake until it's too late. Sometimes we know we're taking a risk, but we always hope for the best. We hope that our mistakes will be forgiven, or at least forgotten. We hope that our mistakes will teach us something. Sometimes, unfortunately, mistakes are just mistakes that can't be undone or forgotten. — Cassia Leo

May 27, 2013 It's hard not to think about Chris on his twenty-first birthday. — Cassia Leo

The monsters we can't see, the ones that dwell only in our minds, are the scariest ones of all. Because there's only one way to fight those monsters. With the help of someone who loves you. — Cassia Leo

The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you're lucky, you'll make it out before you drown. If you're even luckier, you're pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you're really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you. — Cassia Leo

I stare at the table for a moment, lost in thoughts of what it will be like to hold a human being that I made in my hands. I can write a song and I can play it until my fingers bleed, but I can't carry music in my hands. I can't touch it or smell it. I can't give it my heart. — Cassia Leo

I love you with all my circuits. — Cassia Leo

Our face is what we show to the world. It's how we're recognized. It's how we're remembered. Our face is our identity. When you hide your face, you're hiding your identity, and this makes people very nervous. In our feeble little minds, the only people who hide their faces in public are criminals and clowns. — Cassia Leo

He smiled as he led me toward the ship's wheel. Go ahead, touch it, — Cassia Leo

He tasted clean and juicy with just a hint of saltwater. A true seaman. — Cassia Leo

You think saving someone's life cancels out taking another person's life? In terms of fate and circumstance, yes. In terms of retribution and contrition, no. — Cassia Leo

The monsters we can't see are the scariest ones of all. — Cassia Leo

Mikki: 'I need you to do something for me.'
Crush: 'I'll do anything for you. What do you need?'
Mikki: 'I need you to teach me how to breathe when you're gone.'
Crush: 'That's a lesson I hope you never have to learn. — Cassia Leo

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity. — Cassia Leo

But it's not really the love that I envy, it's the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can't not love you. — Cassia Leo

There are moments in life, and they happen so infrequently that they tend to really stand out, when life hands you the gift of perspective. Sometimes, we forget to show our appreciation. Sometimes, we get our priorities mixed up. And, sometimes, we forget how far we've come. But life always has a way of nudging you to remind you about these important things. — Cassia Leo

It's about us," I whisper. He looks confused. "What are you talking about?" "The book. It's the story of us." He sighs as if he's been waiting to hear these words all his life. "I hope it never ends. — Cassia Leo

When you become a mother, it's easy to believe your life no longer belongs to you. In an instant, your most pressing objective shifts. No longer does it matter whether your hair and makeup are perfect, not when you have to worry about whether the human being you brought into this world is hungry or sick or unhappy. It's easy to lose yourself in the day-to-day needs of others when you become a mother. — Cassia Leo

You can curtesy on my dick. — Cassia Leo

It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character. — Cassia Leo

To go to sleep one night with your child nestled inside you and wake up the next with no evidence your child ever existed is like waking up in a nightmare that never ends. — Cassia Leo