Save Your Breath Quotes

“I love you, Mia. I’ve loved you for years. I loved you when you slept down the hall from me and when you rested your head a thousand miles away. I loved you when you weren’t mine to love, and I love you still. It’s not fake. It never has been.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“There’s nothing fake about the way I love you.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“Do you feel it now, Mia? … Do you feel how my heart beats for you?”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“You made it all feel so real.”
“Because it was. It was always real for me.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“How did you not see it? How could you not know that I’ve been fucking obsessed with you since we were teenagers?”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“He wanted to ruin me.
I was desperate to be ruined.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“This was what he was for me, what he’d always ben – my rock.
Strong and steady and supportive.
Even when I was being a brat.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“My best friend, the woman I’d been sick over since I was sixteen, the one woman I knew I could never have…
She’d just proposed that we pretend to date each other.
No, that we pretend to be engaged.
And just the thought of her being mine, even if only for a publicity stunt, had my insides twisted into an unholy knot of anticipation.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“She wanted to hit me.
I wanted to kiss her.
That was how it had always been.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“I’m just a girl with a guitar,” she breathes quietly. Her eyes fall to my lips, and my heart hammers hard in my chest. “And I’m just a boy with a stick,” I say, daring to move an inch closer. “But I bet we can rule the world one day, Strings. I bet everyone will know our names.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“It was the wildest phenomenon, to see him both as the rugged man he was standing before me and also as the quiet, reserved boy who'd first stolen my heart all those years ago. I knew no matter what happened next between us, no matter who he dated or who I married or where our careers took us - I would always be able to close my eyes and see him.
I would always feel him like he was a part of me.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“She was a star.
She was a phenomenon.
And I was just the lucky sonofabitch who got to bask in her glow.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath

“All I’ve ever wanted is you.”
― Kandi Steiner, Save Your Breath