Best Cape Cod Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I write letters to you that you’ll never see.”

“He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.”

“In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.”

“I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.”

“You haunt my days and dreams.”

“The Fall will always be yours and mine…”

“Time' is the most threatening four letter word.”

“I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.”

“That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.”

“I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?”

“He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.”

“I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.”

“I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.”

“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”

“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.”

“Diana, meanwhile, reads every novel she can find that's set on the Cape, and describes for her father the pristine, golden beaches, sand dunes with cranberry bogs and poets' shacks hidden in their declivities. She conjures the taste of briny oysters and butter-drenched lobsters, fried clams eaten with salt water-pruned fingers, ice-cream cones devoured after a day in the sun.”

Summer Cuisine Coastal Cape Cod

Book:That Summer

Source: That Summer

“I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.”

“For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.”

“I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.”

“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.”

“If ever I was running, it was towards you.”

“I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.”

“I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…”

“Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.”

“I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.”

“Your personal truth is your gift to the world.”

“I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest.”

Writing Book Author Cape Cod Zoom

Author:Christopher Seufert

“Oblong stones sink slow and sideways. Shaped by the weight of waves, dutifully vibrating nature’s lunar-bound graces, they wash ashore only for closed palms to forsake them. The cheerful will cherish them, place them on windowsills, or on graves.”

Stones Graves Beach Shore Cheerful Sinking Forsake Waves Sideways Cape Cod Wash Palm Provincetown Windowsills

Book:Of My Maiden Smoking

Source: Of My Maiden Smoking

“In late summer, when sprays of purple loosestrife, goldenrod, and ripening cranberries burst into color along the old road cutting through the Great Marsh of West Barnstable on Cape Cod, the air vibrated with the drumbeat of cicadas, the caws of seagulls and geese.”

Geese Marshes Cape Cod Cicadas Cranberries Loose Late Summer Golden Rod Loosestrife Sea Gulls

Book:The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

Source: The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

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