Bears With Me Quotes

“I want to be happy.” His grip tightened on me then, crushing me against his chest. “I want to be appreciated, treated like I’m fucking special for once and not someone’s afterthought. I want to be—” “Loved.” His voice was deep, rich and throbbing with emotion. “You want to be loved in the way you fucking deserve, Nat, and I promise you, we’ll spend our entire lives trying to do that.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“I’ll never get used to that.” Me neither, I wanted to say, because this had never happened with another woman.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“Had any woman looked at me like Nat did, to really see me? I was pretty sure they never had.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“In my relationship with Paul, I’d been in the position of eroticising the giving of pleasure rather than the taking of it. To do it, I’d performed some kind of mental gymnastics early in my marriage that made it A-OK for me to get Paul panting, even if he rolled over in bed and fell asleep right after he got what he wanted, not feeling like he needed to return the favour. No, love isn’t transactional; it isn’t tit-for-tat. But damn me if it doesn’t wither and die when only one person is doing all the giving.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“I had made myself reliable, useful, practical and able to fit into almost any set of circumstances, but it was always me making concessions, not anyone else. I had become accustomed to bending myself into the shape that other people wanted me to be. And then I’d be left to deal with the consequences of that, often without even any thanks for my trouble.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“If you let him affect you, then you let him win.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“We all have our strengths—and we see yours, Nat.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“They’re gonna imprint on you harder than Jacob did with that weird baby thing in the movie.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“Shit, Nat…” I turned to see that Holly had dropped all the usual bullshit. She reached over and grabbed my hand, holding it tight. “They’re gonna imprint on you harder than Jacob did with that weird baby thing in the movie.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me