Top 70 Tabitha Suzuma Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “How can something so wrong feel so right?”

— Tabitha Suzuma

2. “You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

3. “As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

4. “You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

5. “This is my favourite time of day, the afternoon barely ended, the evening not yet begun; the languid hours of sunshine stretch out ahead of us before fading into dusky twilight.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

6. “I feel like I’m going crazy: seeing you every day but never being able to – to hold you, to touch you when anyone else is around. i just want to take your hand, kiss you, hug you, without having to hide all the time. All those things every other couple takes for granted!”

— Tabitha Suzuma

7. “Your happiness means everything to me. I will listen for your voice in the distance. I will look at the moon. I will keep you in my pocket. I will carry your smile with me everywhere like a warm and comforting glow.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

8. “At what point do you give up – decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

9. “I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can’t be you?”

— Tabitha Suzuma

10. “The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

11. “It’s horrible being ashamed of someone you care about; it eats away at you. And if you let it get to you, if you give up the fight and surrender, eventually that shame turns to hate.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

12. “You’ve always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I’ve fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?”

— Tabitha Suzuma

13. “Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

14. “The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I’m saying.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

15. “Even though I’m surrounded by pupils, there is the invisible screen screen between us, and behind the glass wall I am screaming – screaming in my own silence, screaming to be noticed, to be befriended, to be liked.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

16. “I would give anything to escape myself, Flynn thought, just for a day, just for a minute even. Just to know what it was like to think differently, to feel differently, and to not be me.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

17. “I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that I’ve lost you, I’ve lost everything.”

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18. “Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. They’re all I’ve known. My family is me. They are my life. Without them I walk the planet alone. Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

19. “Otherwise I’ll fall apart. I’m going to fall apart. I am falling apart.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

20. “Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

21. “It’s always nice being wanted. Even if it’s by the wrong person.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

22. “Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don’t even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

23. “If I keep breathing, then I have to keep living, and if I keep living, then I have to keep hurting, and I can’t – not like this.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

24. “But I don’t want to be fine, not if it means she’s going to let go of my hand; not if it means we’re going to go back to being polite strangers.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

25. “At the end of the day it’s about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

26. “Lochie. The boy I once loved. The boy I still love. The boy I will continue to love, even when my part in this world is over too.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

27. “I want to tell her that I can’t pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

28. “This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

29. “Siempre es bueno ser elegido, siempre es bueno ser querido; incluso si es por la persona equivocada.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

30. “This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way, scraped and weary, without any idea of where it was leading, without ever realizing that with every step I was approaching the light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. And now that I’ve reached it, now that I’m here, I want to catch it in my hand, hold onto it forever to look back on – the point at which my new life really began.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

31. “Time has stopped; time is racing. Lochie’s lips are rough yet smooth, hard yet gentle. His fingers are strong: I feel them in my hair and on my neck and down my arms and against my back. And I never want him to let me go.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

32. “I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don’t find funny, saying things I don’t really mean – because at the end of the day that’s what we’re all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we’re all the same.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

33. “And I know how he feels – it’s so good it hurts. I think I’m going to die from happiness. I think I’m going to die from pain. Time has stopped; time is racing.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

34. “I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

35. “At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life’s harshest lessons: that the world isn’t fair.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

36. “He’s the hottest guy in school. I’ve fancied him for ages. I can’t wait to go out with him.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

37. “If I move, if I speak, if I so much as blink, I’m going to lose this battle.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

38. “It’s funny how you can think you’ve reached rock bottom, then sink a whole lot further.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

39. “At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window – do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physically capable of no more, or does it eventually learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?”

— Tabitha Suzuma

40. “He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

41. “What else could he possibly have done? What choices did he ever have?”

— Tabitha Suzuma

42. “We humans are so defenceless compared to the rest of the natural world, he thought to himself. We have no shell to protect us, no fur, no horns, no claws. We are just soft skin and fragile bones; we have only our minds to figure out a way to keep ourselves safe, and sometimes that’s just not enough. We can be so easily hurt, so easily broken, so easily damaged beyond repair.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

43. “I don’t know when it started – this thing – bit it’s growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

44. “Sometimes love chooses us.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

45. “She can’t just be a face, a body; there has to be more than that, some kind of connection. And I can’t connect, don’t want to connect, with anyone.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

46. “Before there was anything, there was Lochan.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

47. “And I know how he feels–it’s so good it hurts.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

48. “I cannot bear the thought of this being just one moment in time, over almost before it started, already retreating into the past. I must hold onto it with all my might.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

49. “You won’t find happiness by hiding from life, Flynn” – Rami.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

50. “I’ve never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before – was the couch not comfortable enough for you?”

— Tabitha Suzuma