This Much Is True Quotes

“Why are you so good to me?”
He grins. “Because you’re my girl. My life began the day I met you, and the only way it makes sense is when we’re together.”
― Adriana Locke, This Much Is True

“Loving her is as natural as breathing. I don’t have to try. And, if I try not to love her, I fail and end up miserable.
…
My happiness only exists with Laina Kelley.
She landed here for a reason. And maybe that reason is so I can make her mine.”
― Adriana Locke, This Much Is True

“I’ve had many life experiences since I left this town, but none of them feel the way I feel when I’m with you.”
― Adriana Locke, This Much Is True

“I understand how different our lives are and how each is important to us. But I can’t just be exiled from your life again. I want you – I’ve always wanted you. Not a day has passed that I haven’t wanted any part of you that you’d give me.”
― Adriana Locke, This Much Is True

“I want nothing more than to carry you upstairs and show you exactly how much I’ve missed you,” he says, searching my eyes.
“Please do.”
― Adriana Locke, This Much Is True

“I didn’t know you knew how to cook.”
“You haven’t seen me in a long time. I can do lots of things that you don’t know about.”
Our gazes collide as soon as the words come out of my mouth. The corner of Luke’s mouth tugs toward the ceiling.
“I may have you prove that,” he says before walking away.”
― Adriana Locke, This Much Is True

“It killed me when I couldn’t see her again – when her world had engulfed her completely. The shift from being a fixture in her life and a certain part of her future to simply becoming a boy from her past knocked me sideways. A part of me has never recovered.
I have to guard myself from falling in love with her all over again because I did that once and barely survived. I don’t think I could do it again.”
― Adriana Locke, This Much Is True

“I told you once that I would always be here for you. I meant it. And you don’t know what it means to me that you knew that.”
― Adriana Locke, This Much Is True

“Hey, Luke. Are you okay?”
“Of course, I’m fine. Why wouldn’t I be?”
Gavin’s voice lowers. “Because the one who got away is suddenly back, and I know you weren’t expecting it.”
I sigh and stop moving, my heart pounding. I’m not sure what to say. He’ll know I’m lying if I try to say it’s not big deal. But how do I answer that.
Laina is, without a doubt, the love of my fucking life.”
― Adriana Locke, This Much Is True

“Seriously, though,” he says, lifting a brow. “I imagine there’s a pissed-off movie star with a security team straight out of a combat zone searching Peachwood County for a runaway bride right about now. It’s not that I couldn’t take them. I’m just wondering if I need to call for reinforcements.”
― Adriana Locke, This Much Is True