One to Hold Quotes

“It was as if all the negatives in my life had managed to twist out one beautiful positive for me.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“I know right then she’s saying she’ll do whatever I want, and that’s the funny thing with power. When the one you love gives it to you, you start looking for every opportunity to give it back or at the very least, use it for her happiness.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“Bars had become a thing of my past, along with flirtatious passes from unfamiliar men, but sitting alone in this hotel club, hundreds of miles from home, I felt wonderfully liberated. I could be anyone. Any anonymous woman having a”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“The screen blinked on, and he was still there. I leaned my face on my hand and studied his image a few moments. He was just as sexy in a suit and tie as he’d been in casual attire—maybe more. A hot tear slid down my nose as his last words flooded my memory. He’d take my call anytime.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“but I was keeping it safe and secure, hoping against hope that I’d be able to find him again. And that when I did, it might actually work as well in real life as it had in our little one-week summer oasis.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“hoping against hope that I’d be able to find him again. And that when I did, it might actually work as well in real life as it had in our little one-week summer oasis.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“When we see each other again, I thought, this is what we’ll do. I”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“Aunt Bea might not understand how small the world had become, but she did know how to show kindness from any distance. Her gifts went a long way toward restoring my faith in both humanity and in one’s ability to recover from any setback”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“Seeing Patrick reminded me too much of being with Derek, of being held in those strong arms, of that deep sense of safety he’d given me. He had been so comforting after my year of nightmares. Of course, I’d fallen in love with him. I was an idiot.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“I hadn’t asked Derek what to do about his childhood game, when the thing you were holding onto for survival was taken away. I supposed the answer would be to simply survive. To keep going. Push through the pain and carry on. Wait for the day when it no longer hurt. He said the pain always ended. I had to believe in this one thing at least, he was telling the truth.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“Sitting on the shore outside my new home, I watched the sun set as the tide gently rolled in against my feet. In the three months since I’d been back, it felt like I had almost completely regained my life. Yes, there were a few scars, a few old wounds, but I was healing. Now I could actually see a time when I’d be whole, unlike before when I was only sinking further into despair.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“I paused only briefly to spread them out, and my breath caught when I saw it—Aunt Bea’s check! It came! I nearly burst into tears at the sight of it. The envelope restored the tiniest bit of hope I needed. I was going to survive this. I was going to be okay. I might be alone, but I was going to make it through.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“My story was so humiliating and awful. I wouldn’t blame Derek if he wanted to walk, knowing I had a psycho ex-husband lurking around. The pain of these thoughts kept me troubled all night.

For a moment, I only stared stupidly as the tears flooded my eyes. The enormity of his betrayal left me weak and wounded. There were so many. How had I been so trusting? How had I been such a fool? Years of lies, and I’d never suspected.

With a deep breath, I touched my tears away. This was my past. I didn’t have to carry this with me, and Derek had shown me love was waiting in my future.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“This blissful paradise we were sharing, our strange arrangement, was drowned by my dismal reality. I was not one he could hold.”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold

“setting that massive physique free. My desire to”
― Tia Louise, One to Hold