Where You'll Land Quotes

“Love was feeling the person everywhere, under your skin, in every strand of your hair, in your heart, in your bones, in the tone of your voice when you said their name. Love wasn’t always about being with the person, it was feeling that your world was better just because they lived. Even if you weren’t ever going to be together, he was the air you breathed, invisible but everywhere.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“I felt his pain as my own and I wanted to touch him, feel him, reach inside his fractured heart and pull out all of the love he buried inside. I wanted to kiss every inch of his skin. I wanted to feel his brokenness against mine, like if we held each other hard enough something within each of us would finally heal.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“Hope can have sharp edges as it leaves you.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“I think when we love people we offer them the opportunity to break the barriers that prevent them from finding the love they deserve.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“I had always been a sensitive person with tons of little cracks and as strong and self-reliant as I could act, it took very little for someone to enter those cracks and hurt me.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“I needed to walk away. I needed to walked away without trying to fix him or our relationship, but leaving the pieces broken wasn’t easy. It was like leaving shards of the most beautiful glass scattered across your floor, because the pieces were too shattered. And now, you had to step cautiously around the brokenness in order not to slice yourself on the remains.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“He couldn't give me what I wanted, because he didn't have it to give. I saw an ideal of him and kept trying to get him to fit that mold because I didn't want to let go of the illusion of who he was.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“Sometimes the beginnings of relationships are the hardest. People always say the beginning is the easiest, but two people trying to let their guards down and be open to intimacy can be hard too.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“I think sometimes we fall in love just because it feels so good to love someone, to desire them, to yearn for another human being, to cross the boundary of aloneness that is part of human existence.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“All I wanted was to merge with the same person who had broken me, thinking that he was the only one who could fill in all the little crevices making me feel whole again.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“The other thing about falling in love: the harder you fell, the easier it was to get hurt. Maybe that’s why it was called falling in love; at some point there was a crash at the bottom that could shatter someone into a million pieces.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“He was the wall I broke myself against. As I tried to tear down his walls, I was freed from my own.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“Sometimes you have to go back to the beginning to see how you want your story to end.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land

“As I observed him sitting there, a heavy look in his eyes, I longed to reach behind that barrier and pull out the warm, sensitive, passionate man I knew was trapped inside.

There was nothing worse than feeling someone’s potential.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You'll Land