Severed Heart Quotes

“I loved you through space and time before, and I’ll do it again. I’ll do it again. I’m with you, I’m with you, always,” I croak in promise. As her last breath leaves her, I bend to whisper in her ear. “Forever,” I murmur, her weight sinking further into me as she departs.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“I’m not your problem, Soldier.” “No, what you are, is my fucking reason,” I declare, pulling back slightly to command her eyes. “My reason to fight and my reason to come home. You are home. Haven’t you figured that out yet?”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“My fighter, my survivor, my general, and the love of my fucking life.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“Sometimes, all it takes is one person to bring awareness to another in pain, to make them feel like they belong here on this earth”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“Well, he says if you ever find someone that has a need you can fill, then you should fill it.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“It’s crazy where a day can take you”—”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“Because I know the difference between living your life and life happening to you, and they are distinctly different. Living life is making choices—what to wear, when to eat, whether or not to cut your hair. These are the easy decisions we get to make—to have some say or a hand in.  Life happening to you is vastly different. It comes by way of a powerful reckoning force that cements your path for better or worse. It’s only in the wake of it that you realize the easy decisions are the only choices you have any real say in.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“She once told me life could happen in a blink, but it’s a series of blinks that brought us together.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“The woman . . . who gets to have you after me. The woman who”—her voice cracks—“the woman who deserved you all along. Who will give you children—I hate her!”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“Well, I got a three-for-one deal on the French pains in the ass in my life when I befriended Dom, didn’t I?”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“Wait for me, and I’ll give you any life you can dream up.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“All of that, that chaos, the beautiful mixed with the tragic, to the depraved, is a deity’s view, Tyler. It’s a god’s view, not meant for us. We are not built for such exposure to things like this, capable of processing so many extremes in such a short time. It’s already causing so much harm to young minds, who are now harming themselves. While it is disguised as a good tool, I feel it’s evil and know it will do great harm.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“You think I don’t know that? My whole life has imploded in blinks the last few years, but this isn’t a blink type of thing. I want to give you all of them.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“A love so pure, so tangible, and unconditional bouncing between us. The only safe space I have ever truly known beating inside her chest as I draw closer to it, pounding over the wood planks to answer her summons and feast on a love that blankets me. A love that protects me and brings me peace while keeping me whole. A love so mine, so ours.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“Living life is making choices—what to wear, when to eat, whether or not to cut your hair. These are the easy decisions we get to make—to have some say or a hand in.  Life happening to you is vastly different. It comes by way of a powerful reckoning force that cements your path for better or worse. It’s only in the wake of it that you realize the easy decisions are the only choices you have any real say in. The hard stuff—the really hard stuff—that’s life happening to you.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“But that’s not why I’m at peace with it.” “You have made peace?” My heart lifts with hope. “Yeah, baby . . . I think I just did in this moment, with you, and here’s why in all its fucking painfully simple splendor—I was eighteen.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“I don’t want a single part of my past to touch my future.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“For six long years, I prayed my soldier would come back for his maps,”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“You’re perfect,” he utters, the words”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“Explain to me why you plan to enlist in a controlled army, carrying out others’ orders. Orders of corrupt puppeteers. I taught you how to lead, to build and run your own army, not to fight in someone else’s wars!”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“Life happening to you is vastly different. It comes by way of a powerful reckoning force that cements your path for better or worse.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“A BOY BECOMES A man when a man is needed.” —John Steinbeck”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“But on this, I consider myself the wiser of the two of us. I couldn’t make or keep that promise any more than she could change her fate against the cancer that ravaged her before it stole her last breath.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“I wish she would die.” “Selfish bitch.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“I chose the uniform too many times, and now I can’t find the fucking door.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“They’ll break you down only to build you up, making you believe you’re a god. They’ll make you feel invincible, but you won’t be. No man is. At the end of it, if you make it out alive, you’ll come home with scars you can’t hide, physical or otherwise, and the fact you can’t hide them will eat you fucking alive. Then you’ll remember what they told you versus what you actually fucking survived and see they don’t quite match up. But the most damning lie is that you will have the capability to leave it over there when you get home. That you’ll be able to find the fucking door. All this time, I’m still looking for the door to you and your mother, Son, because I’ve looked everywhere, and I can’t get back to you.” His voice breaks as I feel my resolve start to dismantle. “I can’t get back to you and Regina.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“I feel the truth of that vow everywhere because there’s no honeymoon period when you find such a hypnotic and intoxicating connection with someone to the point that it feels spiritual.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“Soldier, do you prefer sunrise or sunset?” “Sunset,” he answers quickly. “You?” “Sunset.” I give him honesty. “Because it means I have made it another day.” A day fighting through the haze and farther from my past.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“Jesus Christ, T—” “I don’t breathe a day without her, Tyler, fucking promise me. Promise me. I don’t last a minute past her last breath if it’s possible.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart

“My eyes water, and I nod. “And now that I’m around the age you were when we got started—I can see why you would doubt my words and fear for my future, thinking you would hold me back from whatever path you hoped and help to pave for me. As much as it pains me to admit that.” He gently shakes his head. “Jesus, the distance in perspective from then to now. Of what’s happened, of the amount of life I’ve lived during all those fucking blinks, Delphine.” “So, you forgive me?” “For what? I’m the one who didn’t keep my promise. I let you go without any real fight. You were right, you did reach out, and I didn’t. Honestly, I should be seeking your forgiveness.”
― Kate Stewart, Severed Heart