Following the smash success of her best-selling book, Pillow Thoughts , Courtney Peppernell returns with the follow-up sequel Pillow Thoughts Healing the Heart .
Courtney Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts II --second in the Pillow Thoughts series--eloquently captures the time and experience that one goes through on their journey to peace through restoration.
A collection of inspirational and comforting poems for anyone who is mending from a broken heart.
Pillow Thoughts II Healing the Heart By Courtney Peppernell (Quotes)
1. You have every right to love your solitude. Being alone doesn’t always mean you are lonely.2. Love won’t always give you the answers you are looking for. But you need to come to peace with it anyway. Even if you never know why, even if after everything, it was easier to say goodbye.
I know two people and they are in love. He is charming and tall, she is beautiful and strong. Together I wish them happiness, to last a lifetime that is long. I wish them all the good things in life that remind them to be humble and kind. I wish them success and adventures and to leave all their troubles behind. Dearest friends, may you today be man and wife and live with love for the rest of your life.
4. Sometimes the smallest details about a person are the biggest reasons why you love them.
5. You can’t choose which parts of her you love. Even in all the ugly moments, she should still be the woman you want to spend the rest of your life with. People are not perfect, they have flaws. You don’t get to choose which ones to leave out. That’s not honest love.
6. You are not more than I can handle. Even if you come with a suitcase full of insecurities, I will still want to know you. Even if there are days when you are crying and don’t believe in your worth, I will still want to hold you. I know you have struggled; so have I. I know that things are hard on you; me too. But it doesn’t change how big your heart is. I am old enough to make my own choices, and I choose you.
7. In the end when we are laughing at our child’s wedding, I want to joke, “I don’t know how you put up with me for forty years,” knowing we’ll spend forty more together.
8. My pen could write for a thousand people. But it never smiles about them the way it does for you.
9. We aren’t perfect, we never will be. But I love talking to you, I love telling you how I feel and having you listen to me. And I love listening to you too. All your hopes and dreams and insecurities. Because when everything fades away and our age begins to show, all we will have left is to listen. And because I love the sound of your voice and the echoes of your soul, I will listen to you for the rest of your life. Your thoughts mirror my thoughts, together, two parts of a whole.
10. Tell me how to reach your heart. Show me where you keep it. Let me stay.
11. Maybe that’s what life is about, you wait for that person who you could listen to for hours. That person who is going to have a real conversation with you, make you laugh, make you feel a little lost when you hang up the phone.
12. The Three Kinds of Heartbreak. The first is when someone is reckless with your heart and it breaks and shatters in ways you never thought it could. The second is when you break someone else’s heart
Because you’ll never know pain like the type that has you look into their eyes but they look away. And the worst kind of heartbreak is the kind that comes along when you have to watch the person you love
be happy with someone else.
13. My eyes hurt from staring at a screen trying to forget the memories. My legs hurt from running through empty streets trying to forget all the nights you slept in my sheets. My hands hurt from trying to distract myself in the pages of a book. I’ve been hoping to forget your smile and the way you look.
14. I’ll see you when I see you. I’ll still love you when I do. But for now. Goodbye to you. Goodbye to
all the things I can’t keep holding on to.
15. The hesitation will be quiet. It will come when you least expect it. It will rise from the depths of your aching soul and settle in your heart as three words. I deserve better.
16. Just because the bruises aren’t visible doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
17. The saddest ache you will ever know is to wake up one day and realize you have run out of time.
18. But you know what it means to be happy. When things seem simpler and not piled on as though you might break. Reaching out for help is never a bad thing. We need to be better. Before it’s too late.
19. As tragic as it seems as hurtful as it feels if they gave up on you in your worst moment they never really loved you.
20. They broke your heart, so you found yourself reading texts and letters to piece together where it all went wrong. You have sleepless nights and thoughts pushing you to the limit. Because heartbreak can also mean a broken spirit.
21. If you are not happy, you are not obligated to stay. If they want to make you come undone and make you question all that you are worth, then it’s best to walk away.
22. You could beg someone to heal you in all the ways you can’t heal yourself. But other people are not bandages. You are your own journey. The pain belongs to you.
23. The hardest thing you will ever do in your life is forgive someone who never apologized. But you don’t need to do this for them; you need to do this for yourself.
24. I felt like a book that you had marked with all your favorite pages. Our love was a story that knew no boundaries. But you lost the book and unmarked all the pages, and now I’m missing our story.
25. I see home in your eyes. But home is so far away.
26. It’s in the moments you want to turn to them and share good or bad news that you realize how much of a hole is in your heart when they aren’t with you. All you want is for the person you love most to be by your side.
27. That’s happiness, when you make someone feel safe. You are their person. You are the reason they can talk about their deepest secrets. And in a world of constant shaming, you are the one who makes them feel brave to be themselves.
28. You need to keep moving forward. You cannot get ahead if you refuse to move.
29. People like to talk about their passions. They like to tell you about the things that make them happy. And you can see the switch, the light that pours out of them when they are speaking of the things they love. Listen to someone when they are talking. Don’t shut them down or tell them that their passions don’t matter. It’s the simplest way to ruin another human being.
30. Some chapters don’t have happy endings. But you read on anyway, and I think that’s the point. Not to be happy all the time but to know the sun always comes back around.
