Terra Elan McVoy Quotes & Sayings

I know - better than anyone - that once someone's made up her mind to leave you, there's nothing you can do to make her stay. — Terra Elan McVoy

My own chocolate center has filled up with poison,
the roses he gave me all twisted black — Terra Elan McVoy

It's all eggs and milk in here, and those have expiration dates, so. — Terra Elan McVoy

They have seen the likes of you before, they may be intrigued by the looks of you, but they know that you-like everyone else-will leave them in the end. — Terra Elan McVoy

The goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay. — Terra Elan McVoy

And it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore. — Terra Elan McVoy

I was hiding my heart and you were hiding yours too and we played hide and seek together and both of us lost. — Terra Elan McVoy

I wasn't aware that was how I felt, either, until it was out. And now that I've said it like that, I'm not exactly sure it is how I feel. But this isn't a piece of paper I can crumple up and throw away. they aren't words I can cross out to start over. Now they're out, and I know they'll hang here, between us, maybe forever. — Terra Elan McVoy

Writing, you are a girl on a trapeze, swinging high in the air. you know there is no one on the other side to catch you. but your costume is spangly and all eyes are on you and at some point you'll leap
at some point you'll flip. and there may be no net
though it may also be intact, you can't see
but at this point the jumping is everything
it's all that you've got. and as you write you understand this, you understand you won't hit send, but for now you are swinging, swinging, swinging wildly in the air. your eyes are open, your arms are outstretched. — Terra Elan McVoy

Because there will never be any boy's wrist to tie the balloon of your helium heart to (it has floated high far away from the heavy stone of that unnameable boy in chicago), you would never be with someone and then someone else, and you would definitely never be someone to someone else's else. — Terra Elan McVoy

You're
swimming so hard in this ocean.
Don't you know
if you float,
it will always hold you up? — Terra Elan McVoy

I'm tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything's okay, tired of not being with him ... — Terra Elan McVoy

That's your problem, Char. You're friends with all these boys ... — Terra Elan McVoy

It's so awful when you need something from someone else, even though you're not sure what it is, and then you don't get it. — Terra Elan McVoy