the novel of us

"And in her smile I see something more beautiful than stars." personal

[thenovelofus]

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this good-bye is both a good-bye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. When I look at you, I see your beauty and grace and know they have grown stronger with every life you have lived. And I know I have spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you, but you, for your soul and mine must always come together. And then, for a reason neither of us understands, we've been forced to say good-bye. I would love to tell you that everything will work out for us, and I promise to do all I can to make sure it does. But if we never meet again and this is truly good-bye, I know we will see each other again in another life. We will find each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each other in that time, but for all the times we've had before.

The Notebook

[thenovelofus]

Your lover kisses you, and you feel a tremor in the back of your knees. The synapses fire sending orders, move your legs move your arms... she's the one for you, she's the... girl of your dreams, she's your one and only. And you know because... the smell of her makes your head swim because you get a physical jolt every time she sends a glance your way. I mean she touches you here and you feel it... here. You touch her... anywhere, and you feel it... everywhere. And then... boom. It's six months later and she's... touching someone else.

The L Word

[thenovelofus]

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

[thenovelofus]

It’s a little bit horrifying just how quickly everything can fall to crap. Sometimes, it takes a huge loss to remind you of what you care about the most. Sometimes, you find yourself becoming stronger as a result, wiser, better equipped to deal with the next big disaster that comes along. Sometimes.. but not always.

Grey’s Anatomy

[thenovelofus]

You can't spend your whole life holding the door open for people and then being angry when they don't thank you. Nobody asked you to hold the fucking door.

Orange Is The New Black

[unscar]

I was about to compare her to the sun but I don’t want to give credit where it’s not due, she’s a million times brighter than the sun. And my mother always told me never to look directly at anything too bright but I still can’t take my eyes off her. I wanted to compare her laugh to the chorus of my favorite song. You know, the part where you start the song all over just to hear that one line again and again but I could never get tired of her laugh ringing in my ears the way some of my favorite songs still give me headaches. I almost compared the way she makes me feel to a warm shower on a cold day when your cheeks are red and you can’t feel your fingers and your heart is frozen until the water hits you but its so much more than that. My heart is always warm when she’s around.

shes something, one of a kind, and nothing compares 

[larmoyante]

No matter where I am, I am always loving you.

Francesca Lia Block, Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories - via larmoyante

[thenovelofus]

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how I think it is with us. It's a shame, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go 

[thenovelofus]

The fear behind the fear of losing people is that there might have been something you could have done to prevent it.

Judith Guest, Ordinary People

[thenovelofus]

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[thenovelofus]

Sometimes you wish people would just see themselves the way you do.

Mark Sloan

[thenovelofus]

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

David Levithan, Every Day

[thenovelofus]

The last several weeks I have laughed more, I have done more and I have enjoyed myself more. And I finally feel free. And by being free, I can see now that constantly trying to fix us is the thing that's been killing me slowly. And I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to fix it or fix us anymore. Maybe instead of loving you so hard I should be myself for a while. I should love me. And you should love you.

Callie Torres

[thenovelofus]

I would love to tell you that everything will work out for us, and I promise to do all I can to make sure it does. But if we never meet again and this is truly goodbye, I know we will see each other again in another life. We will find each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each other in that time, but for all the times we’ve had before.

Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

[thenovelofus]

Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

[thenovelofus]

Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.

Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly

[thenovelofus]

Things just break sometimes. Maybe we should blame that third person we became, that personality we shared together. Maybe it's their fault because you're a good person and I think I'm a good person too. We just weren't made for this.

Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You