Best 11 quotes in «love letters to the dead quotes» category

May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure out that I am someone too, and now I can carry you, your heart with mine, everywhere I go.

You learned right away that applause sounds like love.

When parents talk about their pasts, the stories start to stick in your head. But the memories that you inherit look different from the now-world, and different from your own memories, too. Like they have a color all their own. I don’t mean sepia-toned or something. My parents aren’t even that old. I just mean that there is something particular about their glow.

No es carta de amor ni elegía; es carta de haberte querido y comprendido desde el principio inmemorable hasta el beso reiterado sobre tus pies amarillos, curiosamente sucios y sin olor.

All of a sudden we were out of the lot and on the highway next to the mountains, flying. I put my hand out the window, and then I put my head out. I felt my hair blow behind me and the air rush into me, and I forgot for a moment to worry about how I was supposed to be. Because I was perfect right then. Everything was. And Sky was a perfect driver. Not scary. Just steady. And fast. I wanted the music to last forever.

After something really bad happens, the next worse thing is people feeling sorry for you about it. It’s like confirmation that something is terribly wrong.

As vezes, nosso corpo deveria mostrar mais as coisas que nos machucam, as histórias que mantemos escondidas dentro de nós.

And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to just be a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing that you could be the author instead.

But life isn't like that. You can't be sure how it's going to come out, even if you do everything right. They turn around on you, lives do.

Because I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes us human.

I know I could have saved your ashes to put into the ocean, but I wanted you to have the journey, all the way with the currents, to the open sea. And I know that when I finally get to see the waves washing on the shore, to hear them, I will feel you there.