Emery Lord Quotes & Sayings
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Mmmph.' I grunt this to myself in the helpless way you do when something is just so damn delicious. Yeah, I made it, but...what can I say? I'm good. — Emery Lord
Last year, they curled their inky arms around me until my Technicolor world became crackling gray static. Until I felt nothing but blankness. — Emery Lord
I also know that emotions come from the brain. So why do people feel real aches in their chests? Why does it feel like we carry every feeling in our cores? — Emery Lord
A rigid old tree like me--it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives. — Emery Lord
Maybe in my next life, I'll be a wave in the ocean, and you'll be a mountain, and we'll spend years and years brushing up against each other. You'll shift so painfully slowly, and some days I'll crash right into you and other days I'll approach gently, licking your sides. That sounds like us, doesn't it? — Emery Lord
And that's why I don't get to cry, I guess. Because they do. Because we're older but we're not the grown-ups who seem too far away to understand. I tuck that thought inside me, warm and small like balled hands inside hoodie pockets. Beneath the beech trees and sugar maples, feet crunching against dead leaves, I hope for strength. Because as much as I want to be the one crying, I want to be the kind of person someone can hold onto. — Emery Lord
Viv, I just made you wild-caught Alaskan salmon baked with mango chutney, on a bed of garlic red potatoes and arugula. While talking about an Audrey Hepburn movie. I think you are maybe falling in love with me. — Emery Lord
Matt's still watching my face closely, as if nerdy glasses are going to manifest on my face. — Emery Lord
I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need. Most of the things I do in life are for flavor, not necessity — Emery Lord
This is because she doesn't know about me picking a fight with Shruggy Jesus or rolling around topless with Lukas. My soul has already put on a blinker for the Hell exit, and now I live at hippie camp. That's like sending me into the express lane. — Emery Lord
We stare down at the festival below us. I can hear the low pulse of a local band playing cover songs, the rustle of in the lake nearby, and the carrying laughter of kids our age eating cotton candy and flirting with summer loves. The sun has melted down to the horizon line, leaving trails of orange and pink in it's wake. In the distance, our hotel's roof peeks over the tree line. — Emery Lord
Matt's low voice, and Dee's hoarse giggling make a summer soundtrack I'll replay even when the tour is over. — Emery Lord
I'm a taped-together girl, but I can carry my own baggage. — Emery Lord
So far away, but so beautiful. So powerful. I can always feel it tugging at me. — Emery Lord
I vaguely remember a story about a woman who looked back while fleeing a broken city. She turned into a pillar of salt. A harsh fate, but I got the point. You can't look back when you're escaping disaster. You can't hope that someone will come after you, either. — Emery Lord
My eyes fill, hot with tears. Because, apparently, casual crying is just something that I do now. — Emery Lord
Okay," he said, leaning closer to me. "I have a proposition for you." Dear God, let it be marriage, I thought. — Emery Lord
I didn't want to die. I was just trying to feel something. — Emery Lord
I am honestly trying to live this life while I can. The emotion swells around me, into this huge, humid feeling that I must be doing something right. — Emery Lord
Because it's all so fleeting, isn't it? The ocean existed so long before us and will stay long after us - most trees, too, and some animals. Isn't that crazy? — Emery Lord
No matter what heaven you believe in, your time on this earth will end. What I'm saying is that you should listen - really listen - to the slosh of the waves and the distant call of Pacific birds. You should feel a boy's pulse against your cheek; you should fill your lungs with ocean air. While you can, I mean. You should do these things while you still can. — Emery Lord
So, how'd you know about this place?"
"One of my buddies is from Baltimore area - I texted him."
"Saying what? 'Hey dude, know any secluded places?' He probably thinks you're a serial killer."
"I think I said 'romantic and private'. — Emery Lord
Some of the guys I've been with, they've tried to pin me down. They wanted to box me into the details, the wheres and whens and hows of our togetherness, and it always pinched my nerves that they needed to map out a plan for feelings. Other guys, they seemed totally content to let me prance in and out of their lives, relieved that they didn't have to agree to future plans, no concert tickets for a show later that summer, no prom tickets months in advance. — Emery Lord
In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos. — Emery Lord
This past year has been a lesson in letting go and holding on, and I don't know what to make of it. I guess I do know this: find a best friend, and hang on tight. — Emery Lord
... you know that Sunday-night feeling, where the dread of reality sinks in, that you've mismanaged your time and now the anxiety of homework and the wasteland of early mornings and school stretches ahead of you? Well, I hope he has that feeling every minute of every day of his entire life. — Emery Lord
What?" I ask.
He looks startled out of his thoughts. "What do you mean what?"
"I mean, just then," I say, "that look on your face. What were you thinking about?"
"I was thinking...that if I were going to kiss you, now would be a good time. Fireworks and all. Typical songwriter, always looking for poetic parallels. — Emery Lord
We're born alone, and we die alone. — Emery Lord
A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone. — Emery Lord
Love extra, even if it means you hurt extra,too — Emery Lord
Dee's natural colouring looks like an American landscape - country-sky-blue eyes and hair the colour of Tennessee wheat fields, golden strands with darker undertones. My hair is nearly black, and I have jealous green eyes.
In a fairytale she'd play the good fairy. I'd be the evil witch's screwup second cousin. — Emery Lord
That's the thing about love stories: Just because one ends, that doesn't mean it failed. A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone. And exchanging the truest parts of yourself - all the things you are - with someone? What a slice of life. One I'll carry with me into every single someday.
I lie down in the cool grass beside him as planets collide above us and we stay like this for a long time, down to every last crumb. My cheeks are wet, but oh, my heart - it is so full. — Emery Lord
In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what's going to happen. But knowing what happens isn't the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part. — Emery Lord
People out there are waiting to be on your side. But first you have to tell them where you are so they can come stand with you. I know verbalizing what you feel - what you need - can be intimidating if you've never done it before. But using your voice is a kind of strength that makes you powerful. — Emery Lord
I almost try to explain another untranslatable word--sunyata--to Jonas. The idea has Buddhist roots and several meanings, depending on context. I think emptiness is the closest word, but, in English, we infer emptiness as a void, a lack. Sunyata is open with possibility, a meditative space. — Emery Lord
I struggle to maintain a facade of only mild interest in him. — Emery Lord
I can't surround myself with people who are hiding their pain beneath swagger and a grin. — Emery Lord
His smile doesn't hide his own aching chest. — Emery Lord
I love math because there's always a right answer. It's not interpretive; it's not subjective. There is a correct destination, even if you have to hack through confusing parts to get there. That's not always true in life. — Emery Lord
I see it all through the lens of my camera - the flurry of movement, the venue staff in black T-shirts, giving orders into their headsets. As I take it all in, my mind weighs the texture, the composition, the possibility of each changing scene, and I struggle to hold back, to keep my finger from pressing too soon. That's my biggest flaw as a photographer. I'm impatient - trigger-happy. I want the shot now, now, now, click, click, click, and if I could just wait a second more, the moment would really flourish. — Emery Lord
Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on. — Emery Lord
I want to find her in this sadness the way she did for me.
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I have the overpowering urge to make comfort food for her. This is a legacy my dad left me. The hardwired impulse to feed people. — Emery Lord
Sure, QuizBowl wasn't a cool activity to join and, yeah, the idea of answering difficult questions in front of an audience terrified me. But it wasn't anything like the fear that accompanied my drowning nightmare - harrowing and visceral. No, this fear made me feel fizzy. Hopeful.
In fact, this fear felt like waking up do discover I am still here. — Emery Lord
Younger girls stand with their moms alongside countless girls our age in matching outfits - blazers and horseshoe necklaces and ballet flats. — Emery Lord
God, Jonah, keep up. — Emery Lord
I'm just so tired. I'm so, so tired all the time.' A tear slips down her face, all the way down till it drops off her chin, and she doesn't brush its trail away.
And I remember being in that jungle, lost in the darkest, wildest part of it, where fearsome beasts and carnivorous plants lurk between every tree. All I could do was lie down on the wet leaves. Bugs crawled up my legs, and I couldn't care enough to brush them off. — Emery Lord
If we could capture feelings like we capture pictures, none of us would ever leave our rooms. It would be so tempting to inhabit the good moments over and over again. But I don't want to be the kind of person who lives backwardly, who memorializes moments before she's finished living in them. So I plant my feet here on this hillside beside a boy who is undoing me, and I kiss him back like I mean it. And, God help me, with the sky wrapped around us in every direction, I do mean it. — Emery Lord
He said the measure of the man is in those decisions. Do you keep yourself and your family safe in harbor, always? Or do you move forward and brave the storms? — Emery Lord
The only difference is that Dee's natural coloring looks like an American landscape - country-sky-blue eyes and hair the color of Tennessee wheat fields, golden strands with darker undertones. My hair is nearly black, and I have jealous green eyes. In a fairy tale, she'd play the good fairy. I'd be the evil witch's screwup second cousin. Dee — Emery Lord
To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers. — Emery Lord
He grinned. "I knew you loved me, Tessa."
Tessa's cheeks reddened. "One more word, and I WILL have Morgan give you the consent lecture. — Emery Lord
Here is something I never expected to feel: love at first sight for an entire family. But life suprises you. It tells you to close your eyes and blow out the candles, and then sometimes smashes your face into the cake before you can even make a wish. But! Sometimes, every once in a while, you get your wish in. You wish for a boy to spend the summer with, and instead life gives you his whole beauiful family. — Emery Lord
Maybe we were dying planets, Jonah, being drawn into the darkness." I hold my right palm against his cheek, and I wish I could touch him with both my hands. "When we collided, we bounced each other back into orbit. And now we have to do that - we have to return to our own paths because that's what we gave each other. — Emery Lord
I know it's difficult to bare your heart, but it's the least stupid thing in the world. — Emery Lord
Beginning again gets easier with each step. — Emery Lord
I've never felt stronger than when I was packing up my room at Richard's place. [...] I've also never felt sadder. Sad but strong. You can be both. And I am. — Emery Lord
This is the currency of friendship, traded over years and miles, and I hope it's an even exchange someday. For now, I do what all best friends do when there's nothing left to say. We lie together in all the darkness, shoulder to shoulder, and wait for the worst to be over. — Emery Lord
I like the way the word feels against my mouth - soft, unassuming, even soothing. — Emery Lord
I may be stumbling through these steps, but at least I'm stumbling forward. — Emery Lord
I couldn't master this kind of apathy, no matter how hard I tried. I was built to care - to notice, to overanalyze, to try - in a way that felt inalterable. — Emery Lord
My brain, my body, my whole life was on fast-forward and I couldn't push stop or even pause. How low it got after, living with what had happened. And then how numb. How much I missed feeling music in my bones. — Emery Lord
From beside me, Matt says, "I think I've got your number."
"I wouldn't give you my number."
He smiles. "No, I mean...I think I've got you figured out."
"I knew what you meant. — Emery Lord
The glow of my birthday candles and the fairy lights would have been more than enough. But Jonah Daniels? He lit up my whole world. — Emery Lord
I take a step closer to her because that's my impulse - to be near her. — Emery Lord
Every once in a while, her temper flashes. It's like she's exhausted from beating down her demons. — Emery Lord
A nightmare, a memory. A thing can be both.
I stare up at the ceiling. White, white, white. The emptiness of it aches. — Emery Lord
I wanted to live in Lucy and Ricky's world, where the blunders of life were righted in one neat half hour. They made it look easy. — Emery Lord
Darkness might keep flooding in, but I finally had just enough light to find the way back to myself. — Emery Lord
You can ache for where you come from, and it's homesickness. A relationship, and it's heartbreak. But is there a word for missing your friends like that? — Emery Lord
Oh, you know I'm only human;
I bend and fall and break
You cut me and I bleed
I'm a mess for you to make
So forget the words and give me deeds
My heart was yours to take. — Emery Lord
You're always preparing yourself for the thing that is most likely to happen, instead of hoping for the thing that you most want to happen. — Emery Lord
I think it's the bravest thing in the world - to run straight at love, even knowing how badly you could get hurt. — Emery Lord
It's okay,' he says, eyes closed. He's not even awake. 'It's okay.'
He says these words even in his sleep, like he has said them so often that it's his mouth's default sentiment. All this pain in his life, all this care he doles out to everyone else. And yet he still cracks his broken heart open even wider - wide enough to fit me, too. I wonder how much this must hurt him, the toll it just take to give more of himself to me when he already has so little left to give.
In slumber, his arm stays wrapped around me, encasing me for safekeeping. He would protect me even in his unconscious state, as we lie beneath my ceiling's half-painted sky.
This thought is enough to swell my heart - to swell, and to break. — Emery Lord
After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.
It's not the type of love that ends. — Emery Lord
Later in my room, I lift up my dress and twist to see the rainbow splotch of lotus on my side. And it occurs to me, what if I stopped hating it? What if the tattoo and the scar and this summer's freckles are my patina? Wabi-Sabi says rust and faded paint hold beauty. So what if I let these marks be passport stamps from where I've been - one's that don't determine a damn thing about where I'm going next? — Emery Lord
I'm going to spend my whole summer changing the expressions on Jonah Daniels's face. — Emery Lord
It's too damn hard to watch someone else get what you want. — Emery Lord
Her laugh sounds like wind chimes. — Emery Lord
If you want to push someone away, I strongly recommend rambling about death and theology. That oughta do it. — Emery Lord
It's like being at an animal shelter, where I want to be the one the most skittish dog takes a liking to. — Emery Lord
Ryan Chase was my eighth-grade collage, aspirational and wide-eyed. But Max was the first bite of grilled cheese on a snowy day, the easy fit of my favorite jeans, that one old song that made it onto every playlist. Peanut-butter Girl Scout cookies instead of an ornate cake. Not glamorous or idealized or complicated. Just me. — Emery Lord
Summer crushes happen all the time, right? Because you feel far away from the real world, everything seems more...possible. Every person seems more vital. — Emery Lord
We know there are three little words branded inside my heart: Jonah was here. — Emery Lord
She rediscovered me under all that rubble, and that means I'll always be a little bit hers. — Emery Lord
Should have, should have, should have. I'm sick of those words biting at my ankles no matter where I walk. — Emery Lord
I'm a basket case, I thought. Who gets emotional over two letters?
But then I remembered that "no" also only has two letters.
Almost everyone in the world has cried over those. — Emery Lord
My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it. — Emery Lord
Like you had been drowning, and the book was air. — Emery Lord
I know this feeling of being a ghost in your own life - no one sees you, no one feels you, so you stay still as if you could actually disappear at any moment. — Emery Lord
And I say a final last prayer, this one in gratitude that there are people in the world who will protect kids with a fire that makes them sprint after cars, fight systems, curse with rage. It's enough to make you believe. Maybe not in symbols; maybe not in gods. But certainly in people. — Emery Lord
People with tattoos are like evangelicals, ever eager to spread their gospel. - Reagan — Emery Lord
I watch the waves swell and break down the coastline, swell and break. My chest threatens to crack on the left side.
The heart is such a strange little beast - a lump of thick muscle with pipes sticking out. Sometimes I think my heart is made of rubber, and the world stretches it and twists so that it writhes in my chest and aches. This is why I have spent most of my time on this planet here but hurting. Sometimes I think a hear of porcelain would be easier. Let it drop out of my rib cage and break on the floor, no heartbeat, the end. Instead, I get a bouncy heart that bleeds when the world claws at it but keeps beating though the pain. — Emery Lord
It was easy for me to be honest with him because there was nothing to lose. — Emery Lord
I don't remember that." He shook his head. "Of course you don't. You were in another world, completely occupied with whatever you were reading. — Emery Lord
Jonah: Viv. Why is that? All the you-were-heres?
Viv: Because it's all so fleeting, isn't it? The ocean existed so long, and some animals. Isn't that crazy? My dress collection will love longer than I ever will. I'm just looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger onthe world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy. Does that make any sense? — Emery Lord
I guess it's like seeing beauty in simplicity and nature. In fleeting moments and even in decay. — Emery Lord