Revive Me Quotes

“He just wants me. At my best, at my worst, and everything in between. When I’m angry and mean, when I’m soft and open. When I’m running from him and when I’m still. It doesn’t matter. He always looks at me just like this, like I’m his and he’s mine, and nothing else in the world matters except those two facts.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“Chris—” “I love you, Mallory, and I’ve never had a choice in the matter. But, even if I did, I would never choose differently. Even if I lived a thousand lives, my soul would seek yours out. No matter what form I take, what name I'm called by, or what part of the universe I'm designated to, it'd still belong to you. I'd still belong to you. I’d find you in the depths of”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“When I was little, I used to love that tradition.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“When I was little, I used to love that tradition”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“love is a two-way street, a constant ebb and flow of energy and investment. Repeated instances of one person’s weaknesses coinciding with the other’s strengths. That’s what true partnership is, and I’m glad that out of all the things Mallory is, all the things she could be, my partner is one of them.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“Move in with me. Be here with me, in our home. Every day. Every night. Every Christmas and Thanksgiving and every other holiday in between. I want this, what we had tonight, what we’ve had over the last two weeks. I want it all the time. I want it, and you, forever.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“I love you,” I whisper, just because I can. “I love you, princess. Do you hear me? I love you with everything that I am, everything I could ever be.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“You keep wanting certainty, baby,” Mama continues. “But certainty is a desire of the brain, not the heart. The only certainty we get in this life is death and the grief that comes with it. Everything else is ours to make, to hold in our hands and shape with our palms. To nurture or let die.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“He came back here to revive me, to breathe new life into our love, and I told him he couldn’t do it, but he did. He pulled me out of the grave his father dug for us and used the soil to plant a garden for our future. And now I’m standing here, reaping the benefits of the seeds he sowed, terrified of the harvest.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“Giving them to the empty halls of the house we fell in love with when our love was new. Untried and untested.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“In its simplest form, home for us has always been each other. The space we’ve held for one another, and the secrets we’ve kept. The miles we’ve driven and the tears we’ve shed. The days, months, and years spent yearning and dreaming, praying for the stillness of partnership when we were trapped in the motion of solitude.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“No, not just happiness. Joy. The kind of joy that’s hard-won, mined out of caves of darkness and caverns of pain. The kind of joy that comes paired with peace, settling in your bones and encouraging other bright, rainbow-colored emotions to come out and play.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“There won’t be any reminders of me, Mallory, because I’ll be here. Where ever you want me, where ever you’ll have me, I’ll be right there with you.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“At the start of something new and old at the same time. A collision of past and present, hopes and heartache. The first beginning we’ve had in a while that doesn’t have a designated end.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“but you two are proof that we always end up where we’re supposed to be, that life can be beautiful even in the face of loss.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“That love can be found in the most unexpected places.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“There aren’t many things I’m sure of in this world, but I am sure that I was made to love Mallory Kent, to guard her secrets and her truths, to kiss her scars, and ensure that nothing, not even me, causes her pain again.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“There was nothing simple about that first kiss or any of the ones that came after. Hell, there was nothing simple about us. About the way we began or ended. About the way we loved or lost. About the way our hearts were made to beat together only for us to keep ending up apart.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“No, princess, I won’t give up because even though I know I can live without you, I don’t fucking want to.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“Every time you walked away from one of them, you took a step closer to me, Mallory. And when you’re done running, when you finally come home, when you believe me when I say I’m sorry, and you trust that I’m not going anywhere without you ever again, you’ll agree that every man who’s touched you has only served as a reminder that you were made for me.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“Your daddy was the only man I could be me with. It’s like the moment I was in his presence everything in me just…relaxed. There was no pretext with him, no pretending or hiding, just the quiet, rare perfection of being known, of being seen for exactly who you are and being loved anyway.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“I love you, Mallory, and I’ve never had a choice in the matter. But, even if I did, I would never choose differently. Even if I lived a thousand lives, my soul would seek yours out. No matter what form I take, what name I'm called by, or what part of the universe I'm designated to, it'd still belong to you. I'd still belong to you. I’d find you in the depths of the ocean, in the darkest part of the night—”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“Have a good night, son, and remember: the rain will always come, but it’s what you do in the midst of the storm that matters.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“To the fierce and formidable women who sink the kingdoms they aren’t allowed to rule.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“You buried me. With your secrets and your hope and your promises that you can never seem to keep and then you come back here after four years of silence and expect me to be thankful that you remembered how to find my grave?”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“Don’t look at him. Look at me because he’s going to do whatever I want, and what I want is to do what we came here for.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“Shit, it could even be a minor crack in a wall, and I’d take it. Chip away at it with my fingertips, peeling back layers of emotional concrete until my nails were broken, cuticles raw and bloody, when they finally reached her heart.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“I love you,” I repeat, voice stronger, more sure. “And I want this. I want us. I want our forever.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“She’s vibrating with energy, her features a kaleidoscope of volatile emotion.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three