Awaken Quotes

“You and me, professor.”
“You and me, beauty.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“Love the one who proves to you that happily ever after is only the beginning.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“My husband doesn’t just love me. He knows how to love me. He knows what I need and when I need it, sometimes even better than I do.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“I’ll always be here. She could rip me open, tear me apart, and I’d still crawl back to her.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“There are so many important lessons I’ve learned in my journey to now. Trust your instincts, follow your bliss, make plans, work hard, learn to let things go. Don’t be late. Remember that fortune favors the brave. Live. If you need to run, try and run toward something. Study for tests. Laugh at silly cartoons. Be organized. If you fall seven times, get up eight. Always carry an extra pen. Believe you can do everything. Find your key. And the most valuable lesson I’ve learned will forever live in my heart, right beside my husband. Love the one who proves to you that happily ever after is only the beginning.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“It’s not running away if you’re running toward something.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“Beauty, you make me want to stop time so I can look at you forever.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“I’m at your feet forever, Olivia Rose,” I whispered the instant before our lips met. “I’ll move heaven and earth to give you whatever you want, whatever you need.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“It’s so easy to be with her, my lusty fairy, my beautiful wife. Wanting her is like breathing. Needing her is in my blood. And loving her will always be the beat of my heart.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“This book is for all the readers who love Liv and Dean West as much as I do. This is for those of you who know the courage it takes to trust your instincts and find your way. This is for the women who love being someone’s girl, and for the men who are your heroes. And this is for everyone who believes in the good things—books, a cup of tea, sexy professors, interesting travels that lead you back home, warm quilts, and perfectly imperfect love.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“My husband and I will always be two people living one life of perfect imperfection.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“My white knight. My beautiful, strong, brave husband who loves me more than I ever knew it was possible to be loved.

This man would give me the stars, the moon, the sun. He has slain monsters for me and alongside me. He’s battled through dark, tangled woods with me because he has never once wavered in his belief that we are meant to be forever. He would do anything for me. For us.

He’s a rare gift, my husband, perfect and flawed and completely, unreservedly mine.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“I don’t know how it is that this one woman can both bring me to my knees and make me feel like the greatest knight in history.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“I want to grab her and shove her up against the nearest wall. Rip her clothes off and fuck her until the earth trembles and the stars explode. Until the universe shatters.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“love that you love me, professor.” “I love loving you, beauty.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“You show me what I can be."

"No. I just know what you are.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“Our eyes meet, and a thousand hopes, fears, and wishes pass between us.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“Wanting her is like breathing. Needing her is in my blood. And loving her will always be the beat of my heart.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“You’re the first woman who’s ever made me afraid. Afraid of how good this is. Afraid it won’t last. Scared to death of losing you.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“I’m going to kiss you like I’ve never kissed you before.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“...putting down roots doesn't mean you're trapped of stifled or even...ordinary. It just means that you figured out where home is.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“You don’t know that I started believing in impossible things after I met you. Maybe a person could slide down a rainbow or taste the clouds or count to infinity. Why not, if there was Liv in the world? The stars shone brighter, the colors of the world became more vivid, everything was clearer, happier, better. All because of you.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“you know you’ll always be my beauty.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“Look, I’m not going to apologise anymore … Yes, I want to protect you. You’re my wife. I’d fucking kill for you, Liv, and if that makes me a possessive bastard of a husband, then fine. That’s what I am. I’m not going to change either. I love you too goddamned much.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“I press my lips to her temple, tightening my arms around her. “Let’s see what finds us.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“Our island. Our love. Our marriage.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“He’s been protecting this intense, precious bond we share that is more than desire, more than tenderness, more than adoration, more than love.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“Pie love you, professor,” I whisper. “Have faith in me, okay?”
“Ah, Liv.” He presses his lips to my forehead. “I don’t have faith in anyone but you.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“Dean: “How is it you’re always so warm?”
Liv: “Because of you...You drive away the cold and melt the ice. You’ve always made me bloom.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken

“Dean? Dean… are you there?”

“I’m here.”

I’ll always be here. She could rip me open, tear me apart, and I’d still crawl back to her. She’s had me whipped since the day she stood in front of me on the sidewalk with her hair all windblown as she asked me about medieval knights.”
― Nina Lane, Awaken