Always Something There to Remind Me Quotes

“Who they are today isn't who they were then.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“I had to work out that he was always going to break my heart as long as I was willing to let him in.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“I missed the idea of him more than he himself.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“I'd rather love you and be alone than love you and be with her or anyone.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“That's when I realized that part of me would probably always be lost in the past. That just seemed to be my personality: I was the one who couldn't stand change.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“I'd never forgotten him, despite spending half my life trying to forget him. I'd given him everything: my love, my body, my pride, & parts of my heart & mind that I could never get back.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“He was the only person I ever met whose soul I could clearly see in his eyes. And I had more faith in him than I've ever had in another human being.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“What they had between them was alot deeper than what most people had.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“My life had gone right; it had gone exactly as it needed to in order to bring me here.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“I wanted to tell him I loved him, that I'd always loved him, & that life-& I- had never been the same without him there.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“And I could go the rest of my life like this, don't get me wrong. This was reality and I'd certainly learned to adapt to that reality. I didn't love it, I'd never love it, but I lived with it pretty well.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“She'd know the smell of him, the taste of him, the feel of him anywhere.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“How different would I be, if I'd never met him? Might I have had a normal dating life like my friends did, flitting from one guy to the next, never getting too serious or too invested in one while I was still so young? Who would I be if I hadn't endured the heartbreak of losing him & losing that part of myself that was built around him?”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“She would forever remember how warm & secure he made her feel. How could she ever live without that?”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“I was here, & now, but I was also swimming in the past, living these same motions we'd made so many times before.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“Now he would always be part of her. She just didn't know it yet.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“I turned and headed back to the parking lot to leave. Passing the tall tree I'd passed every day on my way to and from Nate's car when he'd drop me off and pick me up. Somehow it was the tree that got to me. It made me tremendously sad, not just because of the time that had gone but because the time had somehow gone without me really noticing it.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“I wanted sex to feel the way it had felt with him. Wild. Uninhibited. A perfect fit, perfect chemistry.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“She couldn't have cared less when she got home or if she ever got home. All that mattered was this moment & that this moment continues.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“God forbid, if something happened & she lost him for good, she would give up anything to have him back. Anything & everything.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“She could no longer see herself without him somewhere in her life, & there was no one she could even imagine being her 1st besides him.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“She thought about Cheryl’s contention that this was young love, and about how she’d feel if they were ever to break up and she had to look back on this moment as an episode in a life that was full of people she didn’t even know now. The thought made her want to cry.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me