Top 120 Courtney Peppernell Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “They say don’t fall in love with writers because their poems are messy and their letters are empty words dressed up to look pretty. But I say fall in love with me because underneath the mess and in between the lines is a heart too full of love that would follow you to any city.”

— Courtney Peppernell

52. “You’re beautiful without even trying but each time I bring you a flower it ends up dying and you don’t see how I look at you you just keep crying and the saddest part is that you’re so special but you think I’m lying.”

— Courtney Peppernell

53. “You were always miles away. Maybe you were just always meant to be miles away. The distance saw us together in a dream and thought we were better off without all the mess.”

— Courtney Peppernell

54. “I swore I would never be happy again the day you said, “Let’s just be friends.” But the world goes on even when lovers go their separate ways. So I will carry on in the hopes I’ll find another lover someday.”

— Courtney Peppernell

55. “It’s difficult to be the best version of yourself all the time. But perhaps life isn’t about that. You don’t have to always be in a good mood; you don’t have to always be sociable or productive. It’s about how much you try, even when it feels like life keeps flipping upside down.”

— Courtney Peppernell

56. “Of all the tragedies on this earth, there is none more tragic than a person who cannot see their worth.”

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57. “Sometimes being alone is too much to face. When everyone keeps telling you to be strong but when you close the bedroom door you’re barely hanging on. The days and weeks feel so heavy sometimes, the world becomes a cruel place to be. It makes you lose will, lose focus. And sometimes the road is covered in fog and to step inside is scarier than to just give up.”

— Courtney Peppernell

58. “You are a battlefield. Never will there be a greater war than the one you hold with yourself.”

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59. “I knew what I was going to say; I had rehearsed my goodbye over and over again, but you left without a word.”

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60. “The aches in my arms still surprise me, even years after letting you go.”

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61. “Breathe in, breathe out slowly and count to ten. There is no rulebook on how to cope when these things end. You may not feel it now, but things will get better, even if life doesn’t tell you when.”

— Courtney Peppernell

62. “As song writers, poetry has always played a special role in our lives. We discovered Pillow Thoughts, and it has been one of the most enjoyable books we have read in a long time!” – The Chainsmokers.”

— Courtney Peppernell

63. “If you were a novel, you’d be an adventure of sadness and happiness and love lost in between.”

— Courtney Peppernell

64. “I loved what we had too. The only difference was that I saw it as forever and you saw it as just for now.”

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65. “Just tell me softly that you love me, because when you said my name, I swear my heart was never the same.”

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66. “If you are in love and the love is returned, be grateful. Because if you take love for granted, it will be overturned.”

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67. “The past does not define you. There will be people who once knew you intimately, but they don’t know you now. They may remember a chapter that once spoke to them, but they don’t get to know the chapters that are coming. You get to write those.”

— Courtney Peppernell

68. “When we met, there was a pull. Like two magnets unsure of the way we wanted to feel. You told me that night you were afraid of fireworks but loved colors in the sky. And all week I’ve been wondering if I could be a color you’d want to know.”

— Courtney Peppernell

69. “I am sorry we are in different states and towns.”

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70. “But if I were to take a palette all my colours would be of you.”

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71. “You are a lonely sailboat, afraid of drowning where no one will see.”

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72. “You never need to get an apology to someone who didn’t want your heart as much as your body.”

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73. “You are the freckle on my nose and I am the freckle on my back. We share the same space but we will never be together.”

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74. “You have spent all these years building a list of the things you can’t stand about yourself. You have been trying to hide the deepest parts of you because you are afraid of someone getting close. But there are only so many seasons you can spend with locks on your door. Because eventually someone will walk in and they will want to know you more and more.”

— Courtney Peppernell

75. “Sometimes heartbreak is as simple as staring at the shelf of chocolate in the grocery store aisle and not knowing which one to choose because you used to always get her favorite.”

— Courtney Peppernell

76. “My soul is numb, and I am desperate to feel. In times of distress and sadness, mornings are no longer forgivable, and waking up isn’t ideal.”

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77. “Who made you feel Like your scars Aren’t beautiful And your baggage Isn’t worth carrying? Who made you feel Like you don’t Deserve everything And you aren’t Someone worth keeping?”

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78. “We’ve spent half the night arguing Because you’re there and I’m here But what else can we do I guess this is growing up When things don’t work out And you fight to hold on Until you realize that sometimes The only thing you have Is to keep moving on.”

— Courtney Peppernell

79. “I still feel the aches you left behind, even after all the time you have been gone. This heart of mine has been broken before, but this emptiness has never left me quite as sore.”

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80. “When you take a lover who uncovers all your flaws, listens to the very essence of who you are and embraces you rather than judges you, hold on to this love for a lifetime, as you will never find a love quite as pure.”

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81. “I understand why people take flight from bridges, I understand why a girl holds a blade to her wrist.”

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82. “You won’t remember, they say, when someone drifts away. One minute you are talking about life’s greatest adventures and listening to mixtapes on Monday afternoons, and the next their presence is replaced with silence: a fragile nonexistence with nothing else to lose. But I will always remember our drift. It took up all this space, like a planet with many moons. It was the year you forgot my birthday.”

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83. “One day you are ordering coffee every morning and the next you can’t even order coffee without thinking about ordering theirs too.”

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84. “By existing you are planting softness in soil that has turned hard. There is no need to surrender your existence. You are doing just fine by even existing at all.”

— Courtney Peppernell

85. “It’s not like we come with an instruction manual: “Please handle with care or rock her world.” It’s not like you can open the book and it’s going to read: “Has been hurt before, don’t be too reckless with her heart.” Because even when you tell people that and they know, they still do it anyway.”

— Courtney Peppernell

86. “I am the universe, and every possibility belongs to me.”

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87. “You stripped me of all my certainty and left me with all these bruises You stole so much of me, more than I had ever planned.”

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88. “But what else am I supposed to do when your hair is soft.”

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89. “There are days where triggers are around every corner, lurking in shadows where darkness spills heavy breaths and tight chests. Anxiety is a devastating thing. No matter how many times you are told to “breathe,” it feels as though the air has all but thinned, and despite every logical reason to remain calm, you feel like a ship without its sails in the middle of a raging storm.”

— Courtney Peppernell

90. “When did you become so tired of us?”

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91. “I’m sorry for all the days we’ve spent separately I’m sorry for all the time we cannot make up I’m sorry for being caught up in all your lonely I just wanted a place to stay.”

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92. “We spend a lifetime with our feelings; try not to hurt those of others.”

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93. “You are allowed to outgrow someone. If the river parts ways, you can forge your own path to the sea.”

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94. “She is tired of the promises that seem empty. Of believing magic may fix her broken heart.”

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95. “They say there’s beauty in sadness but I don’t think so.”

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96. “What am I going to do with all these things if I can never pack them away?”

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97. “All my life I have been stumbling through moments, desperate to reach the next, without ever really finishing the moment I was currently in.”

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98. “No matter where my life takes me or yours takes you, I will love you whether there are a thousand miles between us or none at all.”

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99. “It hurts to feel as though no one understands your secrets. As though you are the keeper of all these thoughts and nobody else could ever feel them too. But sometimes, on a rainy afternoon, you pick up a book and read it with some wine, and for the first time, someone understands. That even if the sun is shining, you don’t feel the glow. But it’s okay, because someone else in the world knows.”

— Courtney Peppernell

100. “People are not perfect, they have flaws. You don’t get to choose which ones to leave out. That’s not honest love.”

— Courtney Peppernell