If He Had Been With Me Quotes

“I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever. I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“What if I kissed you right now?", he says. "That would make me happy", I say.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“and I lay awake in the dark and watch my window go from black to gray. That’s when I think about things that I never let myself think about during the day.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I’m the sort of person who tries to figure out the end of the book as she reads it and my conversations are no different.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I love you,” I say as I kiss him and get out of the car. “Me too,” he says.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Back in the shadows, someone tall and lean is pulling himself up out of the leaves and dusting himself off.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“But you do love me,” I say. “Yes,” Jamie says, “the way people love each other in real life.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I want to pull Finny out of my mind like a splinter so that I can adore Jamie the way he deserves to be adored.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“The anticipation never escapes our perception”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“This is friendship, and it is love, but I already know what they have”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“My love for Finny is buried like a stillborn child; it is just as cherished and just as real, but nothing will ever come of it. I imagine it wrapped up in lace, tucked away in a quiet corner of my heart. It will stay there for the rest of”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“even if she fell in love again, i think part of her would always be wishing she was still with him”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Will you ever leave me?”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“pushing her in front of the bus.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Sometimes I am disappointed with love. I thought that when you were in love, it would always be right there, staring you in the face, reminding you”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Were you and Finny jumping in the leaves?” Mom asks when I slide into the back seat. I look over myself to see if I’m still covered in leaves. “No,” I say. When I close the door, the lights shut off, and I see what she must have seen—back in the shadows, someone tall and lean is pulling himself up out of the leaves and dusting himself off.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“My love for Finny is buried like a stillborn child; it is just as cherished and just as real, but nothing will ever come of it.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever. I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I sit on the Steps to Nowhere with my friends, and we laugh. It is spring and a breeze is ruffling our hair like loving fingers. We sit so close together that we constantly brush each other. We touch each other with the casualness that love allows. Noah and Alex thumb-wrestle. Angie pokes me and asks what I'm doing after school. Brooke reaches out to admire Sasha's new hair. We have sat like this for a hundred days and we think we will for another hundred and one.
That is friendship, and it is love, but I already know what they have not learned yet; how dangerous friendship is, how damaging love can be.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“If he had been with me, Finny would still be alive. If he had been with me, everything would have been different. But whose fault is it that he wasn’t?”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I’ll catch you if we start to go too far.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“And you guys want a damn medal?”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“September is still a summer month.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Stay. I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I didn’t leave,” I finally say. My words lack conviction; even I can hear it. “We just grew apart.” Finny shakes his head. “We did not just grow apart, Autumn,” he says. “I didn’t mean to,” I say. “I’m sorry.” “I already know why you did it,” he says. “I just want to know why you had to be so cruel about it.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Sometimes he loves me more than I love him, and he wants me to pay attention to him, but I wish he would leave me alone so that I could go back to reading or talking to Angie about Mrs. Adams.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Somehow we weren’t friends anymore. It wasn’t a choice. Not really.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“It’s the way I love Finny.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I know about the pressures to have sex.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me