Top 70 Ava Dellaira Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.”

— Ava Dellaira

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

— Ava Dellaira

3. “Sometimes when we say things, we hear silence. Or only echoes. Like screaming from inside. And that’s really lonely. But that only happens when we weren’t really listening. It means we weren’t ready to listen yet. Because every time we speak, there is a voice. There is the world that answers back.”

— Ava Dellaira

4. “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.”

— Ava Dellaira

5. “You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood it suddenly, how that’s what being alive means. Our own invisible plates shifting inside of our bodies, beginning to align into the people we are going to become.”

— Ava Dellaira

6. “You can see the city lights from there, spreading out below like stars on the ground.”

— Ava Dellaira

7. “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.”

— Ava Dellaira

8. “I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.”

— Ava Dellaira

9. “I loved the feeling of being alone together in the car, like we could go anywhere we wanted. Just us.”

— Ava Dellaira

10. “It was a world full of feelings that I didn’t have words for yet.”

— Ava Dellaira

11. “But you said you love me. You don’t just leave after that.”

— Ava Dellaira

12. “You might want someone else to save you, or might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really, not from yourself.”

— Ava Dellaira

13. “Words aren’t good enough for a lot of things, but we have to try.”

— Ava Dellaira

14. “Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy. But on Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.”

— Ava Dellaira

15. “With Sky, I can make the scary stuff disappear. We walk through the neighborhood after dark, and our shadows stand on top of each other, stretching across the whole street. We kiss, and I feel that if my shadow could stay inside of his, then he could eclipse everything that I don’t want to remember. I can get lost in the things about him that are beautiful.”

— Ava Dellaira

16. “Tal vez en eso consista el amor, en atesorar para siempre una vida, una persona o un momento.”

— Ava Dellaira

17. “But missing something is okay. It’s better, anyways, than feeling stuck somewhere. I’ll take longing over boredom any day.”

— Ava Dellaira

18. “I think that I’ve been trying for a long time to feel like I am supposed to, instead of what I actually am.”

— Ava Dellaira

19. “We’ll get old, but my intention is that we’ll never sell out. That we’ll never get too old to remember who we are right now, together.”

— Ava Dellaira

20. “We are each weird in a different way, but together, that’s actually normal.”

— Ava Dellaira

21. “Why are some things harder to lose than others? because of love, of course. The more you love something the harder it is to lose.”

— Ava Dellaira

22. “Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.”

— Ava Dellaira

23. “There are some things that I can’t tell anyone, except the people who aren’t here anymore.”

— Ava Dellaira

24. “People love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are. That’s a sad thing to learn.”

— Ava Dellaira

25. “Sometimes we want our bodies to do a better job of showing the things that hurt us, the stories we keep hidden inside of us.”

— Ava Dellaira

26. “It was a perfect first kiss, like a gust of wind that swept through me, taking my breath away and letting me breathe again all at once. A kiss to come alive in.”

— Ava Dellaira

27. “We do things sometimes because we feel so much inside of us, and we don’t notice how it affects somebody else.”

— Ava Dellaira

28. “Maybe it’s true that there are no happy endings. But, right now, Angie is grateful to be at what feels like a beginning.”

— Ava Dellaira

29. “Your family got broken when you were a kid, but then you made your own.”

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30. “Our flushing hearts, trying to climb to the stars- how with the wrong wind, we can fall.”

— Ava Dellaira

31. “It’s a myth that grief makes you closer.”

— Ava Dellaira

32. “Nirvana means freedom. Freedom from suffering.”

— Ava Dellaira

33. “I think it’s like when you lose something so close to you, it’s like losing yourself. That’s why at the end, it’s hard for her to write even. She can hardly remember how. Because she barely knows what she is anymore.”

— Ava Dellaira

34. “The funny thing about beauty, James writes, is that in no way does its presence negate the truth of suffering, of injustice, of pain, but it does stand stalwart in its own right, as its own truth.”

— Ava Dellaira

35. “The numbers on the board don’t mean a thing, because for the first time in forever, I have somewhere to go.”

— Ava Dellaira

36. “It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.”

— Ava Dellaira

37. “I forgot for a moment to worry about how I was supposed to be. Because I was perfect right then. Everything.”

— Ava Dellaira

38. “But the truth is, the star was just on the sidewalk. Where people walk right over it.”

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39. “All there is is this deep-in-my-stomach feeling of terror, and this fear that there is no really happy ending anymore.”

— Ava Dellaira

40. “If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?”

— Ava Dellaira

41. “I think it’s like when you lose something so close to you, it’s like losing yourself.”

— Ava Dellaira

42. “But there is a third thing in the poem – your voice. The one who saw it. The one who could stand and witness, the one who turned the pain and terror into this beautiful lyric. So maybe when we can say things, when we can write the words, when we can express how it feels, we aren’t so helpless.”

— Ava Dellaira

43. “No guilt or anger or longing changes that.”

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44. “I wished I were somewhere with him, instead of there. I was feeling like some kind of strangely shaped balloon whose string he was holding, and if he let go, I’d float off into the ether.”

— Ava Dellaira

45. “It’s dark out. You’re out there. Somewhere, somewhere. I’d like to let you in.”

— Ava Dellaira

46. “Maybe that’s what being in love is. You just keep filling up, never getting fuller, only brighter.”

— Ava Dellaira

47. “Love’s worth it, for however long it lasts.”

— Ava Dellaira

48. “I know that it can be hard to believe that someone loves you if you are afraid of being yourself, or if you are not exactly sure who you are. It can be hard to believe that someone won’t leave.”

— Ava Dellaira

49. “I think Hannah must be afraid like I get afraid, the way I did when I heard the river, the way I do when I don’t even know what the shadow is, but I feel it breathing.”

— Ava Dellaira

50. “Today is a day when the world turns out to be flat.”

— Ava Dellaira