Crossing Arizona Quotes

“Just once in my life, I want to know what it feels like to have someone fight for me.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“His home is wherever I am. He’s known it since the day he followed me into my house in the fourth grade—like a lost little duck. And he’s been mine ever since.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“Out of everything that’s happened between us, Hannah is the best thing Matty and I ever created together.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“He raised her like a father. He is her father.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“You could come to Arizona with me. I have more than enough space.” My stomach drops, breath catching as I try to move away, but he tightens his grip. “And how would we live? What would we be to each other? Just roommates?” “I…” He trails off, freezing in place.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“I only went to Valerie that night because I got turned on when you kissed me. Every single time I’ve gone to her has been because I was feeling things for you and didn’t understand. It’s always been you, Ducky.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“It’s all the years I spent wanting him. All the months alone wishing the one person I love could love me back. Weeks, days, down to the last nano-second of Matty and Xed, two best friends who will never be anything more or anything less.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“What am I supposed to do, Matthew?” My voice cracks as I sit up slightly, running a hand over my face. “Stand by and watch the guy I’m in love with build a life with someone else? Are you seriously asking me to do that?”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“I wish Matty could see this. I wish he’d walk in here and see what I’ve become, what he’s reduced me to. I wish he’d fucking save me. But nobody cares. Nobody notices my downward spiral, my fall from grace. My leap off the ledge. And when I eventually hit rock bottom, nobody will be around to witness my soul splatter across the ground.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“If I so much as hear a whisper of anything happening between you and a certain someone…just remember our daughter. I’d hate for her to grow up thinking her daddy abandoned her.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“Thank you for wanting me, Matty.” Like I could ever want anyone else. I kiss him back softly, a gesture we share only in the dark when we’re alone. It’s our secret, a rebellion against a world that believes two best friends kissing for comfort is wrong. But how could it be wrong when it feels so right? “I’ll always want you, Ducky,” I murmur against his lips. “Always.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“No one wants me, Matty. It’s fine. I’ve gotten used to it.” “I want you.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“Twelve years of feeling his warmth beside me, and now I’m sleeping alone. While he shares his life with someone else.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona

“When my best friend and the love of my life left me behind, taking his daughter and my heart with him. The daughter that I helped raise.”
― Bree Wiley, Crossing Arizona