Change of Heart Quotes

“I’ve figured out that it’s worth going after the good times even if they don’t last.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“How is it that you scare the shit out of the entire surgical wing on a daily basis but you let your little sister hold you emotionally hostage?”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“There is no such thing as too much. Just people who don’t have the strength to embrace all of you.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“No more than twenty feet away stood the woman I’d nearly convinced myself was a dream. The one who’d disappeared without a trace. The one with the hazel eyes that saw through everything and golden brown hair that almost brushed her shoulders. The one with the secretive smile and the laugh I’d know anywhere. The one I fit inside of like I’d been made for her.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“I could play this game with you. I could go on telling you that you’re heart-stoppingly beautiful while you ignore me for a cupcake. But I’m short on time and I’ve wanted to talk to you since you rolled your eyes at me during the ceremony.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“My sister spends all her time reading,” I said after a few minutes. “She sees books as the solution to all of her problems.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“I love you exactly the way you are and I want this because you cleaved my life into two parts that night. There’s before and there’s after, and even when I had hardly any hope of finding you, I still wanted the after.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“Maybe it’s presumptuous of me, but I want you all to myself. I’d find a way to survive if I couldn’t have that but I’ll be a hell of a lot happier knowing you’re all mine. That’s what this is.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“I knew it wasn’t a one-time thing. I knew this was how it was with us and that realization made it hard to breathe because she was real. I’d imagined nothing. Exaggerated nothing. Whitney was real and we were electric and I could never go back to not knowing.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“I can promise you that you’re in my system and you’re not going anywhere.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“Is that how it is? All of me is yours now?”
I nodded as I licked her. “That’s right.”
“And what do I get?”
I didn’t know how she was capable of speaking. I was having a touch time with breathing. Still, I managed, “Everything. Anything you want, it’s yours.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“Henry. Please.”
I almost laughed because didn’t she know by now? Didn’t she see? There was no need to beg when the only thing I wanted to give her was everything. “Tell me what you need, baby.”
“More.”
“Not a problem.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“I stepped out of his hold. I wanted it, but I also had too many contradictory emotions inside me right now. I wanted to scream and cry and smash things just to hear them shatter. I’d sink into Henry if he opened his arms to me and I’d feel whole again, if only for a few minutes. And I wanted to laugh and bask in the sun and just not be so fucking broken anymore.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“I’m not going to crowd you while you do your thing, but I’m also not leaving you alone right now.”
I cinched the lanyard a little tighter. “Why are you doing this?”
He pushed some hair off my forehead and tucked it over my ear. “Because I want to keep an eye on you.”
“I don’t need you to do that.”
“You don’t,” he said simply. “But I want you to let me do it anyway.”
He settled his palm on the back of my neck. I glanced around. We couldn’t do this here. It was such a bad idea, all of it. And yet I didn’t step away. My voice was pathetically small when I asked the one question I hadn’t been able to get out of my head since he promised we could get through this. “Why?”
… He drew his thumb over my cheek and down the line of my jaw. “Because I like you, Whitney Aldritch. You’ll just have to deal with it.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart

“And I love when we pick apart fictional things. So much less stressful than dissecting our own problems.”
― Kate Canterbary, Change of Heart