Kathryn Perez Quotes & Sayings

I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story. — Kathryn Perez

Accepting the ugly part of life is just part of living. Pain tells us we are still here; it lets us know we've survived. When you really think about it, pain can free you, because without pain there is no pleasure in anything. — Kathryn Perez

You deserve to have a man who falls in love with your mind, wants to undress your very conscience, and make love to your every single thought. — Kathryn Perez

Jessica, falling in love can't always be a happily ever after or a once in a lifetime kind of story. Those happen in books, in movies. This is life and it's real. Life has no script, no outline. We broke the rules of love long ago. All I know for sure is that with you, the rules will never apply. — Kathryn Perez

Everyone is struggling with something. — Kathryn Perez

I'm tired of looking for something that will never be there. I've looked for it on the edge of a blade and at the bottom of a bottle. It's not there. It's just ... gone. — Kathryn Perez

It's a given that we'll have sex. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't feel bad about it. Guys want it, and if you don't give it to them, they don't want you. I want him to want me, so sex is necessary. I just want to be wanted. Loved. After — Kathryn Perez

You deserve a man who falls in love with your mind, wants to undress your very conscience, and make love to your every single thought. You deserve a man who wants to see you slowly let down every wall you've ever built up. You deserve a man that will work hard for you until you let him inside your heart. — Kathryn Perez

Sometimes life will throw everything at you all at once. You can either catch it all or reach for the things that matter most. - Kathryn Perez — Kathryn Perez

Self-doubt can cripple a person faster than fear ever will. — Kathryn Perez

Jessica, you're my here, my there, and my always everywhere. Together or apart, you've awakened a part of me that's been locked away for the past year. I love you and if loving you is wrong, then I don't ever want to be right. — Kathryn Perez

I belong to you, Jess. My heart has belonged to you since I scooped you up off the ground over six years ago. That has never changed. — Kathryn Perez

Think the bigger picture here is that you can't underestimate the pain in a person, because, in all honesty, everyone is struggling with something. Some people are just better at hiding it than others. But — Kathryn Perez

The words on the pages within this book are solely dedicated to victims of bullying, those that ever have or still do suffer from depression, mental illness, and the struggles that accompany it. You are brave. You are strong. You are smart. You are beautiful. You are worth it. — Kathryn Perez

Mental illness doesn't listen to reason. It doesn't even have a language of love. It only knows despair. You cannot blame yourself. You can't allow temporary problems from your past to become lifelong regrets. — Kathryn Perez

House payments, kids, career, and the rinse and repeat of life moved in where love and promises had moved out. — Kathryn Perez

Until you've experienced depression, or a form of depression, you can't ever really know how strongly it controls you. — Kathryn Perez

In the end, we are two people who exchanged our love story for broken souls. I'm no longer his rain. He's no longer the drought. We've become a tsunami, and left in its path of our destruction are two little cups of sunshine striving to keep shining. Ultimately, our children pay the price for our mistakes. — Kathryn Perez

I like to fuck. Hard. I like to fuck slowly. I also enjoy making love. I like to be pleasured. I love to give pleasure. — Kathryn Perez

You were beautifully flawed, but perfect to me. — Kathryn Perez

Why in the name of God do you wear these ugly ass granny panties? I swear it looks like you could parachute from the Dallas Lincoln Plaza with these and have a nice soft landing! Why don't you get on the internet and apply your online shopping skills while purchasing some panties that do not look like they came from your Grans drawer? — Kathryn Perez

I'm capable of making you capable. — Kathryn Perez

Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back. Not even in death. — Kathryn Perez

I wonder what's worse-the invisible scars they leave or the visible scars I inflict upon myself? — Kathryn Perez

I'm not saying it will always be easy because we are human. Two people in love will always have uphill battles but it's how you handle those challenges that truly matter. — Kathryn Perez

Guys want it, and if you don't give it to them, they don't want you. I want him to want me, so sex is necessary. I just want to be loved. — Kathryn Perez

Oh for the love of your vagina, get over yourself. — Kathryn Perez

Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life. — Kathryn Perez

If you told me today our being together would result in heartbreak I would still choose to be with you because I believe that truly living life is in the experiences not the outcomes. — Kathryn Perez

I might as well have said I carried a watermelon like Baby did in Dirty Dancing. I'm an idiot. — Kathryn Perez

We don't meet people by accident. They're meant to cross out path for a reason. — Kathryn Perez

I openly talk about my past because we should embrace our mistakes and our dark times, because without them we'd never have the lessons and the light. — Kathryn Perez

The way I love you has no end. — Kathryn Perez

Or later we've all got to let go of our past. - Dan Brown — Kathryn Perez

Others see depressed people as weak, and all I want to tell them is they can never imagine the amount of strength it takes for us to do something as simple as getting out of bed in the mornings. — Kathryn Perez

Holy Santa Claus shit, Nic! — Kathryn Perez

Just because someone is different doesn't mean they aren't worthy of others' respect. — Kathryn Perez

Being silent may seem weak, but staying silent takes more strength than they'll ever know. I'm — Kathryn Perez

You're worth more than you think. You just have to believe that; then everyone else will too. — Kathryn Perez

I'll have to wake up and realize that some people can stay in your heart, but not in your life. — Kathryn Perez

I've built walls too steep for any man to climb. I'm caged. My heart is that cage. It's always been my strength and weakness. Unfortunately, feeling emotions so strongly has worked against me most of my life. There's — Kathryn Perez

I wanted your body in every way possible. But your mind is what tipped that first domino over. — Kathryn Perez

We never know the battles others are facing. We don't know the demons they are hiding. Everyone you have ever met is fighting something. You may have thought no one could've had the kind of raw deal you were dealt in life, being ailed with a mental illness, yet the truth is, many have the same or worse problems than that of your own. — Kathryn Perez

Okay, I can see that you're set on this bat shit crazy adventure. You want to go Eat Love Pray, I can follow that. — Kathryn Perez

Needing someone to love me and want me has always driven me to the brink of madness. — Kathryn Perez

You don't need freaking makeup. I hate that crap anyway. Women should just embrace their natural state. All that gloppy shit is unnecessary. You're beautiful - you - not some shit that you — Kathryn Perez

Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back. — Kathryn Perez

Perfection is not attainable," he used to say, quoting Vince Lombardi. "But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. — Kathryn Perez

From right now until forever, I'm going to show you what you are to me. I'm not going to tell you. I'm going to show you, because I've wasted too much time doing all the wrong things where you're concerned. — Kathryn Perez

I look into his eyes and jump ... off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring back at me. No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it feels and no matter how much I try to reason it away the truth in this moment ... is that Jonathan Hayes owns me heart and soul. — Kathryn Perez

You lucky bitch. He's packing and eats pussy like it's his job. What's that website again? — Kathryn Perez

No, that's where you are wrong. Your mind was full of sadness and darkness. That is a very different thing entirely. On earth it's nearly impossible to know it, but our minds are not at all who we are. Our brains are just an organ. When we died, our minds died too. All of this, all of what is to come, it's your soul. Our souls never die. They are the very root of who we are, not what we are, but who we are. — Kathryn Perez

I don't believe in true love and I certainly don't believe in love at first sight. Insta-love isn't something that happens in real life. It happens in the books I read, but not in the world I live. Though here stands this beautiful, sexy, funny, sweet and amazing guy who has done everything short of professing love at first sight to me and I'm still standing here like a pair of lungs suffocating, needing him in order to breathe. I'm not running, I'm here, submerged in all of my vulnerability, taking the biggest chance I ever have with my heart and soul. I hope I'm choosing wisely. I stared at the ground and felt his eyes on the top of my head. — Kathryn Perez

For every round peg society forces into a square hole, another brick is laid, building the walls that will eventually close us off from the possibility of living with purpose and passion. — Kathryn Perez

Keep reaching out because you may help pull someone out of darkness and guide them into light. - Caroline Naoroji — Kathryn Perez

They say monsters live under beds. They're wrong because our mind is where monsters truly reside. - Kathryn Perez — Kathryn Perez

I'm so very tired of being held prisoner by my own mind. — Kathryn Perez

are evil, evil beings! — Kathryn Perez

My girl deserves a man who'll give his all for her happiness and I'm going to bust my ass trying to do that — Kathryn Perez

My truth is everyone else's lies. My lies are their comfort. Telling the truth makes people uncomfortable. Who am I to cause anyone discomfort on purpose? Lying works. Lying makes it all better. Lying is my gift to everyone around me. They never even say thank you. — Kathryn Perez

Let me go, Jace," she says quietly. "I don't know how," I whisper, and then release her wrist. — Kathryn Perez

You done went off and found yourself a MAN. — Kathryn Perez

Loving someone doesn't suck. Losing the person you love is what sucks. — Kathryn Perez

Act like a whore, Jessica, and you'll keep getting treated like one, he spouts. How — Kathryn Perez

The small words hurt the most." - Kris Harte — Kathryn Perez

When you're fighting a raging war inside your own head, the rules of engagement aren't clear. — Kathryn Perez

No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it felt, I knew that Jonathan Hayes owned me, heart and soul. — Kathryn Perez

Scary things only go on in our minds if we let them. Monsters don't live under beds; in our minds is where they truly reside. Remember that. — Kathryn Perez

We are taught in life that love can heal wounds and rescind pain, but we soon learn that pain can often destroy the strongest of love." - Kathryn Perez — Kathryn Perez

I know I need to stay strong, but just like rust can weaken even the strongest of metals, depression can weaken even the strongest of people. — Kathryn Perez

Your past doesn't define who you are. Biography isn't Destiny. — Kathryn Perez

I love you but you were a boring mother fucker until Mister-Pussy-Eating-Like-a-Boss, Hot-as-Hell, Sex-on-a-Stick came into your life. — Kathryn Perez

Insta-love isn't something that happens in real life. It
happens in the books I read, but not in the world I live. Though here
stands this beautiful, sexy, funny, sweet and amazing guy who has
done everything short of professing love at first sight to me and I'm
still standing here like a pair of lungs suffocating, needing him in
order to breathe. — Kathryn Perez