Write Me for You Quotes

“In any lifetime, in any love story, I will always choose you.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“I want to leave my fingerprint on the window of the world.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“Allow me to fall for you. Write me for you.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“But what if…” She drifted off, and a tear escaped her eye. What if we don’t make it? she meant. “Then we live within the pages.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“I might only be seventeen, Junebug, but I know what it’s like to have little time left. And as much as I want us to come out of this place in remission, cancer has taught me that nothing in life is too fast. Time is relative. How I feel about you…” He paused, and I could see him trying to find words. “It’s not about time. It’s not about what right or wrong. It’s about connection and wanting to be with you every day.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“I love love stories—the kind that has your heart leaping from your chest. Ones that change a reader’s life. Make them believe in true love. Soulmates. I want to write at least one great, epic love story that lasts through the ages.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“You get to walk me down the aisle, Daddy,” June said, and Mr. Scott’s eyes closed.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“We might not have a long life ahead of us, but maybe our love story will last like that star and be a comfort to somebody out there who needs to hear it, long after we’re gone.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“We'll never go gray, June murmured, and I stilled. June lifted her head, and I met her watery gaze. "We'll never get wrinkles."
"People spend a lot of money to avoid them." I chuckled.
"I wouldn't," she said, then crushed my heart when she added, I would want nothing more than to see a wrinkle form on my forehead, evidence that I was getting older and living my life. I would smile with pure joy seeing a gray hair on my hairline because it would mean that we were being given time.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“Please, don't," she whispered. "I can't hear it right now." But I needed to say this. Seeing Emma tonight was proof that anything could happen to us at any time. I didn't want anything unsaid. "Junebug, if anything happens to me, I want you to look at the palm of your hand, the one that holds my heart, and know that I loved you more than anyone has ever loved before."
"Jesse, June murmured.
"You have been the biggest blessing in my entire life, Junebug. Not football, not anything...but you. I just want you to know that. If all we ever get is a few more weeks at this ranch, then it will be a life well lived.”
June began to cry again, and although the moment was heavy, I felt lighter telling her these things. "You have become my life," she said.
"And for however long we have left, that will never change."
She flipped my hand over and traced a heart with her fingertip on my palm. I smiled at her. "My heart is in your hand too," she said.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“Love,” my mama said”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“... like the burned-out star four thousand light years away, our love will shine bright long after we’ve gone”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“Baby…” my mama said, placing her hands on my cheeks. She searched my face like she was seeing me for the very last time.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“I would be his gravity, grounding him, and I would be his sun, chasing away the dark clouds that would inevitably come. I would be the girl who would cradle his heart until my very last breath—and even beyond.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“I’ve fallen for you, Jesse Taylor. Hook, line, and sinker. And I know I will continue to fall for you even more. The way I feel for you…could be endless.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“When I arrived at Harmony Ranch, I knew it would change my life, just not in the way I expected. I expected to be healed, or I expected to die. What I didn’t expect was to meet a country boy who would utterly change my life…”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“We may have lost her in this one, but we’re living in the other one too.” I smiled sadly. “In our parallel universe.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“If I die,” I whispered a while later, “I want to go just like this—with you next to me, holding my hand.” June’s lips trembled. But she nodded, making me that silent promise. “Write our story, Junebug. Let our parallel-universe selves live the best lives they can. We deserve to have our happily ever after, even if it’s in another life.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“I want us to live, June. If the only way we get to do that in the end is in your book, then at least I’ll have the comfort that somewhere, out there, in a parallel universe, we are really making a go of it. And that even though life has roughed us up a bit, we’ve turned it around and made it our bitch.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“What if the Jesse and June in your book are out there, in a parallel universe, waiting for you to breathe life into their story.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“Never lose this,” I said when I pulled back. “Never lose this happiness I can see on your face right now. Your purpose, the reason you write, the reason you survived—it makes the world a better place, Junebug.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“Promise it’ll be you who comes and gets me,” I said. I squeezed his hand twice. “Just like this. So I know it’s you.” Jesse squeezed my hand back, twice, showing me exactly what he would do.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“Junebug, if anything happens to me, I want you to look at the palm of your hand, the one that holds my heart, and know that I loved you more than anyone has ever loved before.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“We’ve come to see you and wish you luck for the next round of treatment,”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“It’s you and me, Junebug. It’s you and me forever.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“If I die,” I whispered a while later, “I want to go just like this—with you next to me, holding my hand.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“I want us to live, June. If the only way we get to do that in the end is in your book, then at least I’ll have the comfort that somewhere,”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“We’re not done fighting,”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“She’s my girl.”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You

“the beginning of our love story came to my mind… When I arrived at Harmony Ranch, I knew it would change my life, just not in the way I expected. I expected to be healed, or I expected to die. What I didn’t expect was to meet a country boy who would utterly change my life…”
― Tillie Cole, Write Me for You