Not Our First Rodeo Quotes

“Life happens and we have to adjust to it.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo

“After the injury that ended my dance career, when Beau and I moved from Utah back to our hometown in Montana, I isolated myself from pretty much everyone. I was in a dark place. It only started to lighten when I found out I was pregnant. And then we lost the baby at eight weeks, and I was plunged back into the blackness.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo

“Elsie, I know you need time, and I’m fighting myself every day to give it to you, but I want you to know that no matter how long you take, I’ll be waiting for you at the end of it. I know what I want, and no amount of time is going to change that.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo

“But then I realized I don’t want to be them again. I love who we are now, who we’ve become through all of this. It hurt, but we’re better for it, Els. You have to see that. We may have broken, but when we put ourselves back together, we made something more beautiful than what we were before.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo

“Today is the last day I hurt others because I’m hurting. I’m done breaking the people I love because I’m broken.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo

“This isn’t our first rodeo, and one way or another, we’re going to find our way back to each other.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo

“I tell him the only thing I can right now, the only piece of truth I have time for. “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me too.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo

“I’m going to thank her,” he says earnestly. “Because she changed my life that day. She made one small decision that turned my entire world upside down, and I’ll get on my knees to thank her for it every day for the rest of my life if I need to. You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me, Elsie Jennings,” he says, voice dripping with a sincerity I can feel. His eyes bore into mine, like he needs me to understand this one truth. “You have to know that.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo

“But just so you know, I don’t think you failed at any of those things. The dance floor, the canvas, and especially our baby, were lucky just to be touched by you, for however long you had them. Not all endings are failings. Some are just chances for us to start over.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo

“But her eyes still hold mine, a fire behind them that I haven’t seen in so long. One that was doused months ago. “I’m pregnant.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo

“I don’t know how to love someone who won’t let me love them back, and I hate that most of all.”
― Madison Wright, Not Our First Rodeo