Val Emmich Books & Quotes

“Fantasies always sound good, but they're no help when reality comes and shoves you to the ground. When it trips up your tongue and traps the right words in your head. When it leaves you to eat lunch by yourself.”

Emotion Fantasy Imagine Anxiety Lonely Feeling Dear Evan Hansen

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“To the ground I fall. I can never stay aloft too long. Not when there's an ugly and heavy truth always dragging me back down.”

Life Truth Death Fall Emotion Lies Feeling Dear Evan Hansen

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“Sometimes you keep wishing for something to happen, and then, after so many times not getting the thing you wished for, you stop wishing, and that's when it suddenly happens.”

Dreams Wishing

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“I walked to my window. It's pirch-dark outside. For the most part, I've always preffered night to day. At night, it's okay to be hunkered down in your house. During the day, people expect you to be out and about. You can start to feel pretty guilty about wasting so much time indoors.”

Home Introvert

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“The me I am is not the me I was.”

Past Change Quote Me Evan Hansen

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“To sit back and watch is no longer possible. It never was, it turned out. I step onto the pristine grass. It feels like an invasion, but a voice inside reminds me to loosen up. I don't pretend that I knew him before, but he's always with me now. We're weaving in between trees, careful not to disturb, on a mission. We mean no trouble. There are so many of us, the lonely souls. All of us who helped build this. Those who will watch it grow. Those we've lost. We march on together. Climbing, falling, soaring. Trying to get closer to the center of everything. Closer to ourselves. Closer to each other. Closer to something true.”

Self Truth Self Love

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“We're weaving in between trees, careful not to disturb, on a mission. We mean no trouble. There are so many of us, the lonely souls. All of us who helped build this. Those who will watch it grow. Those we've lost. We march on together. Climbing, falling, soaring. Trying to get closer to the center of everything. Closer to ourselves. Closer to each other. Closer to something true.”

Self Truth Healing Loneliness Bittersweet

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“My pills correct the chemicals, but Zoe is medicine for the soul. Her words mend my mangled world. "I wish we could have met now. Today. For the first time." Her eyes, bluer than the sky. "Me too." Maybe we are meeting for the first time. This is the truest me I can be. I'm just sorry I got here so late.”

Self Truth

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“It's so easy to feel alone, but Evan is exactly right, we're not alone.”

Loneliness Alone

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“I'm left with a loneliness so overpowering it threatens to seep from my eyes. I have no one. Unfortunately, that's not fantasy. That's all-natural, 100 percent organic, unprocessed, reality.”

Reality Loneliness Real Life Alone

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“It reminds me of that saying: "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." I guess that means we're just products of whoever made us us and we don't have much control. The thing is, when people use that phrase, they ignore the most critical part: the falling. Within the logic of that saying, the apple falls every single time. Not falling isn't an option. So, if the apple has to fall, the most important question in my mind is what happens to it upon hitting the ground? Does it touch down with barely a scratch? Or does it smash on impact? Two vastly different fates. When you think about it, who cares about its proximity to the tree or what type of tree spawned it? What really makes all the difference, then, is how we land.”

Pain Growth Healing Growing Up Falling Brokennes

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“You're born and you keep getting older and grayer and sicker, and no matter what efforts you make to reverse the process, you die, every single time. To repeat: worse, worse, worse, and then death. I have a long way to go before the worst. This is only the beginning.”

Life Death Die End Beginning Worse Cycle Repeat Dear Evan Hansen

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“If the pain is in you, it’s in you. It follows you everywhere. Can’t outrun it. Can’t erase it. Can’t push it away; it only comes back. The way I’ve been thinking, after all that’s happened, maybe there’s only one way to survive it. You have to let it in. Let it hurt you. And don’t wait. It’ll reach you eventually. Might as well be now.”

Dear Evan Hansen

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“Meh is basically a shoulder shrug, and that pretty much sums up the reaction I get from society at large.”

Dear Evan Hansen

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“The feeling of almost drowning is even worse than actually drowning. Actually drowning is peace. Almost drowning is pure pain.”

Dear Evan Hansen

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“Mom turns away from the map and presents me with a face that is meant to be brave and carefree but looks exactly not those things. She's wounded but still standing. That makes two of us.”

Hurt Broken Mothers

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

“Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.”

Light Dark Emotion Depression Suicide Metaphor Feeling Dear Evan Hansen

Book:Dear Evan Hansen

Source: Dear Evan Hansen

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Dear Evan Hansen

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