Broken Dreams Quotes

“She’s the bright light in the dark skies, the light in the lighthouse that cuts through the fog and guides the ships home. It doesn’t matter how bleak or dark it is, she’s there, bright and ever shining.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“she’s the first person I want to share the news with.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“Addison Elizabeth Davis, when we met, I remember thinking you were the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. You saved me the first day we met, helping me with Jett, and you’ve saved me every day after that. I was the one who didn’t even realize when I asked you to pretend to be my girlfriend, that you’d be more than that. You’d be my best friend, my love, my light, and the reason I smiled again. You’re the only woman I ever want to laugh with, fight with, smile, and pretend with. I may not have had the honor of loving you first, but I want to be the man who loves you last.” I pull the ring from my pocket, holding it between my fingers. “Will you⁠—” “Yes!” she yells and drops to her knees. “Yes. Yes. Yes, and more yes!” “I”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“I want every day with you, Addy. I want to create a home for our kids and . . . well, I’m not doing that with Brynn. You’re my future, baby. You’re my days and nights, and fuck if I want to miss any more of them.” Addison leans in, pressing her lips to mine. “I love you, Grady Whitlock.” “And I love you.” More than I knew I ever could again.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“I don’t want you to leave thinking that this wasn’t real for me. That how I feel about you isn’t real, because it is.” “And what do you feel?” He lifts his hands to my face, cradling me like I’m precious and delicate. “I’m falling in love with you. Against every attempt to stop it, I couldn’t and I don’t want you to go, but I love you enough to let you if that’s what you want.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“Why do you call me dove?” “Because doves are precious, beautiful, innocent, and calming. They symbolize grace and beauty and inner peace. When I look at you, Addy, I see only that.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“Because I think you’re a woman who only gives herself to a man she loves and who loves her back. I think you’re the kind of woman who men dream of finding because you’re honest and giving. You give your heart and that’s a gift I wouldn’t take from you, but I wish to fucking God that I was deserving of it, Addy.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“Did you win a tournament lately?” “Yes, it was called, I need a girlfriend for money.” “And your prize?” I ask, playing along. “The best fake girlfriend of the year.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“I sigh and do that, letting the music and Grady move me. His hands move up my back as he keeps me close and I really hope I remember that he doesn’t want more than a pretend girlfriend, no matter how real it feels.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“When I get outside, Addison is there, running her hands through her hair as she paces. “I understand that, but I have to get to work. I can’t wait hours for him to sober up enough.” I walk over and call her name. “Addison? Everything okay?” She pulls the phone from her ear. “I have a flat and no spare and the tow company can’t get here until who knows when.” “Can your husband or someone pick you up?” “I’m a widow and . . . you know, it’s fine. I’ll call a friend and just wait a while.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“Hey there, Jett,” a soft voice says from behind me. When I turn to look at the speaker, my breath lodges in my throat. This woman is stunning. She has long blond hair that is pulled to her right shoulder, the warmest, most beautiful blue eyes I’ve ever seen, and she’s holding the hand of a little girl who is identical to her.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“I never realized toddlers are literally like dealing with a hostage situation. He can argue, pitch a fit, refuse to do what you ask and then, when he hears something he wants, he caves.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“Even in the dark, there is light, and where there is light, there is hope. Hold on to it.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“You love me?” …
“More than I ever knew I could. More than I ever wanted to. I love you, Addison, and I was a fool to ever think I could stop myself.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“I’m falling in love with you. Against every attempt to stop it, I couldn’t.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“I want this man. I want this man to want me – forever.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“For three years I’ve been battling this world alone, and he reminded me what it’s like to have a pillar behind you, there to lean on when you feel like falling.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“I don’t want to take from you, Addy. I want to give you whatever you want.”
“I just…I might not be good at this,” I let out because at this point, it is what it is.
He smiles at me and then his hands slide back up to cradle my head. “You’re too good at this. You have no idea how beautiful, sweet, wonderful, and alluring you are. There’s no way you’re not good at this and we’ll find a way together to be even better, but I need to know what you like, what makes you feel good, what you need, to make sure that I give it to you.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“Addison rests her hand on my chest, right over my heart. “Hope is what keeps us going forward. Don’t ever lose it, Grady.”
“And what do you hope for?”
She pulls her lower lip between her teeth for a second. “Love. I hope for love.”
I wish I could be the one to give it to her.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“Sometimes I wish this wasn’t fake. That all of this was real.”
“There is nothing fake about desire.”
“No?”
“Want me to show you?”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams

“Is that why you don’t date?”
He laughs. “I don’t date because bitches be crazy.”
“Or the fact you call them bitches,” I toss back.”
― Corinne Michaels, Broken Dreams