Addicted for Now Quotes

“Sometimes the person we think we’ll become is the person we already are, and the person we truly become is the person we least expect.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“What’s going to happen,” he breathes, “is that I’m going to carry you through this door. I’m going to draw out every single moment until you’re exhausted. And I’m going to move so slow that three months ago will feel like yesterday. And tomorrow will feel like today, and no one in this fucking universe will be able to say your name without saying mine.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“He is my breath. My soul. My life-force. I have spent forever with him.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“Why is it that the people you come to love are the ones that seem to hurt you the most?”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I could not live without Lo. He is as much a part of me as the sun is a part of the sky, as the earth is to the universe.
I need him in order to wake up in the morning.
I need him to feel whole.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“Because I think she loves you more than she loves sex. And you love her more than you love alcohol, but you two just haven’t let yourselves believe it yet.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I have so many regrets. I don’t believe anyone who says they don’t. How can you live life making mistakes and never wish you could take one back?”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I need you to know that I’m not going anywhere. I’ll always be here when you come home. There will always be an us.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I can't help but laugh into my next sip of water. For the first time, mine doesn't seem so bad.

"I don't know why you're fucking laughing. You have a girl's name and no middle name.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“He’s Loren Hale. Ice and whiskey. Powerful and intoxicating.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I can sue you for harassment".

"Lets play that fucking game." Lo replies "lets see whose lawyers are better. I'm a goddamn Hale. My family eats shitty fucks like you for brunch. Don't you ever force yourself on a girl ever again”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“His lips rise. “I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don’t come off like a complete prick.” I think he just called me stupid.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I think the six of us—we’re all strong. We’re each just a different kind of strong. But we all have a
different kind of weak too. And I’m figuring out how to bottle my weakness to help them all.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I thought Rose was making that fucking shit up.”
“When you string together curse words, I go deaf a little in my right ear,” Connor tells him. “What was that?”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“Some battles are best fought with a sidekick.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“He stands confidently in his hot pink mankini. When I told him it was the only suit left, he literally shrugged and put it on. Tan skin, ripped abs and stylish wayfarers- he instantly looked cool even wearing that damn thing. And the girls playing water volleyball even gawked at his ass”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“You think you’re indebted to your parents because they gave you everything you have. But they didn’t give you what fucking mattered. They owe you. They owe you for not asking why their daughter isn’t home. Why she looks distant and sad. Why she has barricaded herself in a fucking apartment with her boyfriend. They have failed you, and if they tell you to get on a fucking plane or go to rehab – where we all know you shouldn’t be – then you need to tell them to go to hell. And if you don’t, Lo and I will. I promise you that.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“Yeah, my father is an egotistical douchebag," he says roughly. "My name literally means Jonathan empire.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“You could have knocked ... Or, you know, announced your entrance like they do on Downton Abbey”.
He steps out of his drawstring pants, now completely naked. He walks towards the glass shower door and stops. And then he knocks on it.
I have petrified by the tiled wall.
“It’s Loren Hale,” he says, a smile spreading across his lips. “May I come in?”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“She shrunk into herself and waited for me to stare at her like she was gross an dirty. But I just wanted to hold her and tell her that she was worth so much more than whatever she was searching for.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“Lo shakes his head at him.
“What?” he says.
”You’re walking a thin fucking line.”
“I always am, little brother.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“Did you bet on me?' I ask dumbfounded.
'Yeah,' Lo says, unabashed. His eyes fall to mine. 'And I'll always bet on your side.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I’m going to take care of you now. I’m going to fill you so deep that you’re going to wish you could touch me, but you can’t.” Yes. “You’re going to come each time I slip in.” Yes. “You’re going to ask me to stop to catch your breath.” Yes. “I won’t.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“It doesn’t matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that to a girl, especially one that’s drunk.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“She is my past, my present, my future. So when I open the door and slide into the driver’s seat, I’m not surprised that it feels like I’m returning home.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I know the kind of remorse that puts deep pain on your chest, the kind that feels as weighted as Atlas bearing the world. It’s soul-crushing.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“It just happened, Lo. I can’t take it back, and I honestly wouldn’t.”
I think that should be Ryke’s motto. It just happened. Or better yet, throw in his favorite word. It just fucking happened.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I don’t think there’s a black and white
answer. I think I’ve been swimming in the gray state of things for so long”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“She doesn’t have to say, I love you because… The sentiment is attached to each and every word. She loves me because she believes I’m strong. She loves me because she’s a part of me. She loves me because I’ve become a better man through all of this.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“Whatever happens, we’re in this together. You and me.” “Lily and Lo,”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now