Because You Loved Me Quotes

“One of the reasons why Nicole’s life at home appeared so disenchanting was that she had set the bar of happiness out of reach. Nothing else, “except him,” she wrote in her journal the day after the argument, would suffice.”
― M. William Phelps, Because You Loved Me

“I beg for your forgiveness,” Billy continued. He prayed Nicole wouldn’t break up with him—but not before laying a proverbial guilt trip on her, twisting the situation around, conceivably hoping to shift the blame from himself to the other person involved. He undoubtedly knew how weak Nicole was. How easy it was to manipulate her, especially in the state of numbness she had been in lately. She was vulnerable. Alone. She had no one else in her life to confide in. And Billy knew it. “…I don’t deserve you.”
― M. William Phelps, Because You Loved Me

“They were fooling themselves, however—because they were not experiencing true feelings of love, but the promise of it. They never thought about the sacrament of love or the responsibility that went with it. To them, love was an uncontainable urge, a power beyond their control, out of their hands. They were addicted to it, in a sense. The mere fact that over one hundred miles separated their homes and Jeanne was trying to put a wedge between the relationship early on only made them believe they wanted each other more.”
― M. William Phelps, Because You Loved Me