The best Quotes from This Lullaby

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

"It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happens. You don't think or plan. You just do it."

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Silence is so freaking loud.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes... blotting out the future.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Eternity is instantaneous, and an instant is eternal.

Eternity stretches things out over a long time. But each moment within it becomes all the more fragile.

Trust is earned - I can't just magically hand it over.

Trust no one. Not even your own feelings.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

Our fingerprints don't fade from the lifes of those we touch.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

'You want to talk about failure?' He looked up at me, meeting my eyes. 'Try being the one who was driving. Who got to live.'

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.