The Last Letter From Your Lover Quotes

“I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”

“If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.”

“It was indeed a gift to have someone to love.”

“To have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift.”

“Their eyes met, and in those few silent moments, he told her everything. He told her that she was the most astonishing thing he had ever encountered. He told her that she haunted his waking hours, and that every feeling, every experience he had in his life up to that point was flat and unimportant to the enormity of this. He told her he loved her.”

“She regards Ellie gravely. “You know, you can’t make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply...off.”

“Take him to you, if you must, my love, but don’t love him. Please don’t love him.”

“What are you saying?” He fought to keep his voice under control. “You love me but there’s no hope for us?”

“I ask you not to judge me for my weakness. The only way I can endure is to be in a place where I will never see you, never be haunted by the possibility of seeing you with him. I need to be somewhere where sheer necessity forces you from my thoughts minute by minute, hour by hour, I cannot do that here.”

“I learned a long time ago, Ellie, that ‘if only’ is a very dangerous game indeed.”

“Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.”

“Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”