More Than Just Us Quotes

“Narrowing my eyes, I fought my growing smile. “So . . . what. You’d give up everything for me if I asked?” I was joking. Entirely. But to my complete and utter confusion, he didn’t even so much as hesitate before saying, “Yes.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“I loved you like you were my own. For the entirety of high school, it was the two of you. It was the three of us. That whole time . . . I’d never seen Bridger happier, more alive, more himself. You brought that out of him. You did that for him.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“And last weekend, when I was at his house, I realized that the first article I wrote sophomore year was still taped up on his wall. He was the first one to believe in me and to spur that belief in myself.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“It just feels like no one would willingly choose me.” His laughter faded, face going serious. “I did.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“I’d acted as if I was thinking about it, all the while knowing dang well I was going to be curled up in my room with a good book on Saturday night.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“What, I see a pretty girl with a dead car battery, and I’m just supposed to walk away and not offer her my perfectly useful jumper cables?”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“There is beauty in the quiet moments after you finish your new favorite book, when you take your first sip of the perfect coffee, when you watch a TV show that makes you laugh so hard tears stream down your face, when the first whisper of a cool autumn breeze rustles your hair, when you hug someone you love more than yourself.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“There is no part of you that you could show me that would make me turn away. Your darkest corners, Stella, they don’t scare me.” My chin trembles, the words I never dreamed I’d hear from anyone filling me, lighting me. “I love you, Stella. All of you.” Exhaling, as if he’s been waiting to say those words since he got off that plane, he says, “I never stopped.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“I savored the feel of him, the quiet calm of his presence in the middle of the chaos.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“I squint against the sunlight, and Bridger glances over at me and pulls the visor down to shield my eyes. I don’t bother trying to hide my smile.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“Even after the time apart, even after whatever happened between the two of you, it was still you. For him, it was still you.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“Peter Kavinsky is, like, easily top five ultimate fictional boyfriends.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“Okay, but, like, you can’t try to tell me that she really never thought the letters would get out. I mean, she literally addressed them,” Bridger said emphatically.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“I try to remind myself no one is looking at me and no one really cares, but it’s hard to train your mind to put down its defenses after they’ve been raised so high for your entire life.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“Bridger always had this sort of natural attentiveness toward me, and when he gave me his full attention, I knew that I had it. That he wasn’t only listening but was actually hearing what I was trying to say, sometimes when I didn’t even know what I was trying to say.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“Will you stay with me?” I ask quietly. “Always.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“Or maybe she just knows that I’m safe with you.” I speak the words so softly that I wonder if he even heard them until he squeezes my fingers that are still wrapped in his. He brings our hands up to his mouth, pressing a featherlight kiss to the back of my hand, lingering there for a moment before lowering our hands back down to his leg. “I’m just glad you’re okay.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“I think this will always be my favorite view,” I said, the breath from my words forming a small cloud in front of my face. A few moments passed before he replied quietly, “Me too.” But when I looked back at him, he wasn’t looking at the skyline ahead of us, or the vibrant city below us, or the last dying light of the evening around us. He was looking at me.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“It was like I was programmed from the start to exist somewhere inside of myself entirely, somewhere different than the world around me in this glow of hope and possibility that only I could see.”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us

“I successfully make it through the rest of my impromptu shopping trip without any further human interaction (thank you, self-checkout)”
― Allie Otoski, More Than Just Us