Beautiful Broken Love Quotes

“could see that things weren’t all so bad and that I could live my life despite all I’d been through.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“I’m convinced growing up is a curse. All the emotions hit you harder and the innocence fades when you get a dose of the real world. This earth is supposed to be our playground”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“His body was my home, and I loved being there. No one wanted their home to crumble—to deteriorate and vanish. It was unfair.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“Does this unexpected man make you laugh? Does he make you feel like yourself? Does he comfort you relentlessly, unconditionally? Do you ever feel judged by him? Does he understand you, even at your lowest? Is he patient even when you feel like he’s sick and tired of you?”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“We all blame ourselves after a death, wishing we’d talked to that person more, or hugged them one last time. Wishing we hadn’t yelled at them, cursed them out, or ignored their phone calls. Guilt. Shame. Hurt.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“We had a love like no other—a beautiful, broken love that healed us when we needed it most.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“Davina, there aren’t many things I’ve been sure of in my life, but when I met you, I was positive you were the one for me. Whether I could have you or not, you were the one my heart yearned for. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I want to kiss you every single morning and night, to hold you when you’re down and lift you up when you feel weakest.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“After he cleaned me up, he took my hand, helped me off the bed, and said, “Now let’s go make love in the shower too.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“Yeah, but what they see isn’t the real me. That’s just a front I put on to prove I’m okay and to tell myself that my past will never define me.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“Truth is, he’d never lost his touch; it was just his gloomy heart that’d weighed him down. I promised him I would never do that to him again—walk away, leave him alone. This time, I was here to stay, and unless he gave me a reason to leave, I wasn’t going anywhere.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“That’s what happens when you get to be my age. You live and you learn, and most of that knowledge was gained the hard way.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“You can only focus on what or who is in front of you at this present moment. Does this unexpected man make you laugh? Does he make you feel like yourself? Does he comfort you relentlessly, unconditionally? Do you ever feel judged by him? Does he understand you, even at your lowest? Is he patient even when you feel like he’s sick and tired of you?”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“Of him seeing the real me. Of him taking the short end of the stick because of my loss. Of having him pick up all those broken pieces and trying to mend them just to make me happy. He doesn’t need someone so damaged. He needs someone good. Someone healed. He’s such an amazing person, and I’ll only drag him down.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“Davina, because at the end of the day we are our own worst critics. We’re hardest on ourselves and only see the flaws when all another person sees is the beauty.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“Like I told Deke, I was in shambles, and I meant that in every sense of the word. My heart, my mind, my body—all of me was so bleak and broken.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“Truth is, grieving people hurt in a different way. Sometimes we punish or blame ourselves. We act like we don’t deserve good things when we lose someone, because good things mean happiness, and happiness means moving on, and no one wants to move on from what’s familiar to them.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“But when I woke up in that bed and saw Davina was gone, I felt exactly how my sister had that day when she’d stormed to her room.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“I hear all these stories about how being in love makes you feel a different way. Being without that person makes you physically sick—makes you feel like you can’t do life without them—and I’m telling you, Davina. If you leave this house, if you walk out that door . . . I will be sick without you. You’re my cure, D.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“I needed to be happy. For once in my life, I needed to choose myself and to put me first.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“There was no dedicated time to accept someone’s loss, to be happy, or to embrace a new chapter. There was only today and the future.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“Davina Klein had all of me. Every cell, every breath, every heartbeat—she had it all.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“The noise that came out of me was a mixture of pain and pleasure. Sex had the tendency to feel so good that it hurt,”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“A groan rattled in his chest, and when he was all in, I couldn’t resist the satisfied moan that slipped out. He was so big—bigger than I expected—and I loved it.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“I got you, D,” he murmured. There was safeness in his voice. A sureness. I relaxed. Deke adjusted me in his arms and pressed my upper back to the window. The glass was cool on my skin, but when I looked into his eyes, all I saw was heat that could melt a glacier.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“I’ll be more than happy to fuck you if that’s what you need, D.” I nearly spit out my drink, and a laugh burst out of him. “How blunt of you,” I said after swallowing the drink down.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“Everything, Deke. Everything between us scares the shit out of me.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“She liked being talked to while being eaten. I could roll with that.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“I see you like having your pussy eaten,” I rumbled between licks, and she moaned louder, clutching my head with both her hands.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“And I promise you, not a single hair on your body is gonna stop me from eating this pussy.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love

“People don’t change, Ma. They just fake it until the people around them believe they have. He taught me that.”
― Shanora Williams, Beautiful Broken Love