“Fear is a powerful motivator, but so is love.”
— Lyssa Kay AdamsPeople screw up. A lot. The key to a lasting relationship is the ability to forgive over and over again.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsThere’s no expiration date on the truth.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsWhen you lie to someone, you’re telling them that they’re not worth the truth.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsShitting on other people’s dreams doesn’t make yours shine brighter.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsForgiveness means recognizing that you are a different person because of the pain but realizing that so are they because of the pain they caused.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsOur society has allowed men to get away with a lack of emotional intelligence by equating the expression of a full range of human emotion with femininity.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsIt took me a long time to realize it wasn’t my job to convince him I was the prize worth fighting for.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsWomen aren’t rehab centers for emotionally stunted man-babies.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsOne of the most insidious ways that toxic masculinity destroys men is that it strips us of the ability to express our emotions.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsNot everyone is willing or able to take on the world in a great big fight. It doesn’t make them weak or wrong.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsYou can’t regret a romanticized Hallmark version of a past that never existed.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsSometimes the scariest thing in the world for a man is to admit how he feels.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsYou have to stop wishing that people who will never appreciate you will someday wake up and beg you to stay.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsTravelling with kids is like opening a bag full of squirrels on a plane.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsMemories are unfair. They don’t tell us until it’s too late that this one, this detail, is the thing you need to hang on to.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsThere will come a day when you are sitting across from him as he is eating his breakfast and all you will think is 'why.'
— Lyssa Kay AdamsA fear of vulnerability – physical or emotional – is usually a fear of something else.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsThere’s a big difference between letting someone go because you have faith that they’ll come back to you and letting someone go because deep down you’re convinced they won’t.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsThe lessons of romance novels had taught them all how to be better men, better partners.
— Lyssa Kay AdamsDon’t hide anything from me, because you are a part of me.
— Lyssa Kay Adams