“Everybody wants their own little place in the world. And maybe mine is here… Loving you from a distance…”
— Ranata Suzuki
“I’ve never been the most important person to anybody – not even myself.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“I’ve never been the most important thing to anybody – not even myself.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“Today is just another day of trying to get by without you.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“Perhaps the echoes of people we once loved still linger in the places we frequented with them and that is why we go back… Not so much to remember them as to feel them…”
— Ranata Suzuki
“Deep down, I think everybody wants to be ‘the one’ to someone. I don’t know if I’ve ever been that person to anyone else – but I do know you are that person to me. You are the one. The only one. And you always will be.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“You loved him enough to let him leave… Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“She wears it so beautifully doesn’t she, her pain… Always smiling, always positive…. always happy to help… It’s like a garment perfectly tailored to fit the way she carries it… with a touch of grace… and the quietness of that sad smile…. All so you’d never know how heavy it really was.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“It didn’t hurt me. Not “hurt”. Hurt is a four letter word. It’s short, almost cute sounding. Aawwww, did that hurt? No. It didn’t hurt. Destroyed, Obliterated, Desecrated, Annihilated, Demolished, Shattered, or Demoralised maybe… But no. It didn’t hurt me. It didn’t “hurt” me at all.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“You made me feel worthwhile…. like for once it mattered if I was here or not because I actually meant something to someone…. because I meant something to you. I miss that feeling.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“How do you love someone and just… walk away? Just like that. You just, go on as normal…. You get up, get dressed, go to work… How can you do that? How can you be okay with that?”
— Ranata Suzuki
“For you are you, and I am I, and once we were we… but as long as I exist and so do you – know that I will always love you.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“It’s just never going to get any easier is it. It’s never going away, this missing you. It’s going to become a sadness I incorporate into myself – along with all the other sadnesses – and quietly carry around with me forever…”
— Ranata Suzuki
“I still think of you every day.But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it used to.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“There’s only ever been one person I’ve looked at and thought…‘I could quite easily spend the entire rest of my life with that man’.And sooner or later I need to accept that he’s spending it with somebody else.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it.You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart.How can you?He has it.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“I didn’t love you to seek revenge.I didn’t love you out of loneliness or unhappiness.I didn’t love you for any of the misguided reasons that time might convince you I did.I just loved you because you’re you.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“I try to do something positive – I socialise more…But deep down I know the truth.An entire world of people can never replace the one that I’ve lost.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….….. and you’ll erase me completely.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“I had always wanted to hear those words.I had always wanted to be your girl.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“You can miss places. You can miss people.Just know that what you’re really missing is the way things were. And even if you could go there again…. see them again…. you can’t go back.They’re not the same.You’re not the same.The loss of them changed you.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“A woman is at heart – a wild creature.But the creature itself … that depends on you. (His wild rabbit – your wild horse)”
— Ranata Suzuki
“Our parting was like a stalemate….Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost.And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“Though I never really had you….… to me you will always be the one that got away.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“You’re everything to me. But at best, I’m just a memory to you.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“A kiss….….. is just a kiss….Until it’s all you reminisce.(Then the memory becomes your most treasured possession.)”
— Ranata Suzuki
“I know he wasn’t perfect…But he did the best impression of it I’ve ever seen.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“When we’re young, we think that Love and Hate live on opposite sides of the street from one another; But as we get older we realise they’re actually next door neighbours with paper thin walls.”
— Ranata Suzuki
“It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.”
— Ranata Suzuki