And Then You Quotes

“I want you to fucking fight for me,” he says. “I want you to fight for us. I want you to tell me you love me and that you want me and have me and keep me and be with me. Forever. But most of all, I want you to be happy. I want you to stop all the lying and hiding and just be fucking happy. With or without me.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“His lips devour me. Own me. Claim me. It feels just as safe as I was afraid it would. But even being scared is safe with him.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“How do you explain a void so endless it sometimes feels like your whole existence is made up of an absence.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“Hope is a dangerous thing.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“I’d pick this place, too,” he continues with a nod. “For?” I ask. “Living. If I were a tree. This is where I’d grow.” “You’d never be a tree, though,” I say. He glances toward me then. “Why? Not dignified and stately enough?” “I can’t imagine you standing still in one spot for hundreds of years. You’re too alive.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“There is no highway to Stephen’s mind. Only an endless maze of narrow roads where every once in a while you’ll arrive at a cliff’s edge.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“Tell me something real,” I tell him one day. He looks at me, silence stretching out between us. He swallows hard. Looks away. “It was a few years ago,” he says. The pretend lightness makes his voice hollow. “After an unexpected storm, I got stuck on Mars.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“I’m a shitty friend. No room for argument here. But when it comes down to being a shitty person or being honest, I choose the former.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You