Old Flames and New Fortunes Quotes

“Why did you have to be so pretty? It’s such a waste, whenever I have to look at anything else. The worst part is I’ve always known it, had to go too many years looking at too many other faces. Knew the whole time what I was missing. Knew that being satisfied with anyone else would be impossible.”
― Sarah Hogle, Old Flames and New Fortunes

“I knew he would say this, that he must know already, because he’s been carrying my love around with him all this time. It’s why I could never give it to any other man. All along, he’s the one who’s been keeping it safe.”
― Sarah Hogle, Old Flames and New Fortunes

“Alex is my one. I’ve wasted so much time finding him again, years that I’ll never get back. I wasted time getting to right here, right now.”
― Sarah Hogle, Old Flames and New Fortunes

“I moved to Oreton,” he continues, “because it hurt to breathe, being here, seeing all the places we’d been together, driving by those memories, seeing an imaginary younger me and a younger you at every turn. It’s only bearable now because I badly want to make more memories with you rather than run from the ones that bleed.”
― Sarah Hogle, Old Flames and New Fortunes

“When my eyes connect with Alex’s through the window, it’s a lightning bolt hurled from the sky, directly down my spine, radiating outward to every bone.”
― Sarah Hogle, Old Flames and New Fortunes

“My heart can barely take it. I’m going to expand. I’m going to grow and grow, with nothing to stop me.”
― Sarah Hogle, Old Flames and New Fortunes

“Kissing Alex, touching him, feels like a door unlocked, like all the right magical ingredients combined. Loving Alex makes the magic sing.”
― Sarah Hogle, Old Flames and New Fortunes

“Loving Alex is innate language. I don’t remember how I learned it because by the time it dawned on me to consider the concept, I was already fluent. I didn’t stop loving him, I didn’t forget that I loved him, either. All I did was put the words behind a door to prevent them from escaping into conscious thought. They’ve been waiting there all this time, alive, just as loud, just as strong, as they ever were.”
― Sarah Hogle, Old Flames and New Fortunes

“What’s past is prologue. —Shakespeare, The Tempest”
― Sarah Hogle, Old Flames and New Fortunes