Dear Ava Quotes

“No matter the road you take, it doesn’t matter if it’s beautiful or ugly, hard or smooth, paved or pitted with ruts—it’s your road to take. What matters is how it ends.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Scars serve as medals of honor, and the strongest hearts have the most.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Don’t make it hard on me, please. Just, someday in the future, find me. Just find me and come up to me and tell me you still love me and want me and can’t live without me in your arms—”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“I love how he laughs. It’s the color of the sun, soft and warm and golden.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“An unforgiving heart is like rat poison to the one who holds it. One of the nuns told me that once”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Sometimes the loneliest place on earth is in the midst of a crowd”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“You can’t go because I won’t get over you. I won’t ever find someone like you. I won’t ever kiss a girl like you. I love you.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“He closes his eyes briefly and looks as if he might say something, but he doesn't, and sometimes when people don't speak, they say everything , don't they?”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Scars serve as medals of honor, and the strongest hearts have the most. I like your scars. Share them with me.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“He grunts. "Really? No one wanted them to be together. None of the gods approved. Who'd love the kind of the underworld?"
"The right person.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Why can’t a devil want an angel?”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“the heart knows when it sees its forever.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“I want you kissing me, just me. I want you, Tulip, you, you, you, you…”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Dear Ava, today is the beginning of anything you want,”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Just, someday in the future, find me. Just find me and come up to me and tell me you still love me and want me and can’t live without me in your arms—”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“He laughs and leans away from me, but not before the air around him shifts and I catch his cologne. He smells like the ocean, salt and sunshine and coconuts, and my chest swells.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“You kiss like it’s your last.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Oh, I see the promise in those beautiful eyes of his. The seriousness. The heat. I see him. He’s the kind of guy who doesn’t love often, but once he does, it’s with everything he has.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“I cup his face. “Scars serve as medals of honor, and the strongest hearts have the most. I like your scars. Share them with me.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Most of the time I can shove all that down and pretend it doesn’t hurt to be left behind by the people who are supposed to love you.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“I want something good. I want to not worry about a dark night in the woods, I want to replace it with beautiful things. With him.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“No one wanted them to be together. None of the gods approved. Who'd love the kind of the underworld?

The right person.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“An unforgiving heart is like rat poison to the one who holds it.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Sometimes the loneliest place on earth is in the midst of a crowd.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Steel yourself,” I whisper. “Beyond these doors lie hellhounds and vampires.” I smirk. If only they really were. I’d pull out a stake and end them like Buffy. Sadly, they are only human, and I cannot stab them.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Un cuore che non perdona è come veleno per chi ce l'ha nel petto.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“I yearn for her. To ease the monsters in my head. My hard heart wants the glass heart in her. Obviously, I am out of my mind.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“up.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“No matter the road you take, it doesn't matter if it's beautiful or ugly, hard or smooth, paved or pitted with ruts- it's your road to take. What matters is how it ends.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava