If He Had Been With Me Quotes

“Autumn?" he says. He looks down at my face.
"I love you too," I say. "I forgot to tell you.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Oh God," he says. "Autumn.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I love you."
"Oh God, I love you.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“After this,” he says, “things are going to be the way they were always supposed to be.” Then he climbs inside and closes the door. He starts the engine without looking up at me again. I stand in the yard and watch his car until it is gone. It begins to rain.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“There just isn’t a way for two people on a bed to take off their jeans without being awkward and embarrassing. But it can still be perfect and wonderful too.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“but like all winters, this one lasts forever.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“The author is Irish, probably dead, and someone I’ve never heard of before today.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“You think you deserve to be sad,” he says. There is a moment of silence as we look at each other. “You think it is okay for you to be sad every day. But it is not okay. And you do not deserve it.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“If he had been with me, he wouldn't have died.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“In third grade, I announced that I was a feminist. During Job Week in fifth grade, I told the class and teacher that my career goal was to move to New York, wear black turtlenecks, and sit in coffee shops all day, thinking deep thoughts and making up stories in my head.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“and refused to eat the bottom left corner of my sandwiches.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“And for the first time in years, I feel like things are going to turn out the way they were always meant to be.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Finny wouldn’t approve of me trying again if I am pregnant.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Late in the night, I hear footsteps in the hallway. I roll over and look at the door. It opens slowly. “Finny?” I say. There is silence. “Oh, Autumn,” my mother says.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“It begins to rain.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“am,” I say. “Actually, I’ve been really happy.” Finny’s eyes soften, and we’re looking at each other.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“So that’s it? You’re not even going to try? After all this time together?” “I can’t do it anymore, Autumn.” “You said you would love me forever.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“our seat belts off.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Like most of my stories, it will end tragically”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“It’s the day we met,” Jamie says. “That starts it. And then the turtle is our first year together. And I’ll get you one every year for the rest of our lives, and when special things happen, like our wedding and our kids.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“It was as if I had been born without the ability to understand if the things I was about to say or do were strange,”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“and they do anything that the other asks them to do, so they’re constantly jumping up to get sodas for the other or to rub their shoulders.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Did Finny feel something? Was there something nameless that shifted within him? Did that last year feel to him like late afternoon, the sunlight creeping across the floorboards of his room, slowly fading until there is but a thin veil of gray between day and night? Did I feel something? Did I know?”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“It is spring and a breeze is ruffling our hair like loving fingers. We sit so close together that we constantly brush against each other. We touch each other with the casualness that love allows.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“laugh. It is spring and a breeze is ruffling our hair like loving fingers. We sit so close together that we constantly brush against each other. We touch each other with the casualness that love allows.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“and how it doesn’t really matter to me but I wish it mattered to my dad.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“and every year there has been more and more other things that matter, and it has felt less and less like Christmas.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“You think you deserve to be sad,' he says.
There is a moment of silence as we look at each other.
'You think it is okay for you to be sad every day. But it is not okay. And you do not deserve it.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I used to say to myself that I just have to get through winter, that I just have to wait. That things would get better then.
And I know that winter is supposed to end, but things are not always the way they are supposed to be.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“My father is back to his old schedule, no more Family Dinners, and I am angry with my mother for being upset. She should have expected this, she should have known better, and I hate her for making me sad for her.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me