The Hope We Dare Quotes

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Hope We Dare

“I love you, Isla. Never thought I’d say it to anyone else in my lifetime, but here we are. I’m proud you’re ours.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“I lean in and place my forehead to his. “Listen to me and listen well. I have spent years loving you in a way the world doesn’t always have room for. I chose you every single day when it would’ve been easier to disappear.” I breathe him in and kiss him. “You loving her doesn’t take anything away from you and me. It makes us bigger.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“I’m pinned between two men I’m falling for. Have fallen for. I want this feeling of being enough, of being worshiped, to last forever.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“There’s something about watching the two of them that affirms what I already know. That my Bear has an immense capacity for love, but like a mistreated pet, he’s been wounded almost every time he’s tried. And Isla brings out a different kind of tenderness in him.
It’s like a little kitten just got put in his big hands and he knows not to be too rough with it.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“I’d always felt utterly and completely whole.
Until this moment.
Guiding Garrett and Isla across the street. Protecting them both. Helping them both heal. It’s like there was a missing piece to my jigsaw puzzle and I never noticed it until now.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“We didn’t see you at the club because you were so masked up in what you thought being a club girl was that you never showed us who you really are.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“I let their warmth and presence anchor me in place and try to let the pain fade beneath the slow and steady breathing of the two other people in this bed.
One I love with my whole heart.
One who is creeping in there without diminishing what I feel for Kai.
I let myself want this. Fully. For now, for as long as we can hold it, for as long as Isla stays.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“I probably shouldn’t listen to their conversation, but I can’t help myself. I want to hear Kai fall in love. I want to watch him do it. I’ll always lead us in the bedroom, but in truth, he’s always known more about how to love and be loved than I do. I need him to show me the path to follow in this, because without him, I’m sure as fuck gonna get lost.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“Perhaps Isla could be ours. Once she gets over feeling like she was once everyone else’s.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“You don’t know what it is to build the armor to live in that world, offering your body in the hope someone will want your heart too. Then, being overlooked by everyone. Not being good enough for any of them.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“I spent so long performing and faking. Pretending I was game for anything, when the truth is it broke a piece of me each time I did something I knew I didn’t want to, but smiled anyway.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare

“I projected the need I felt for one goddamn stable thing in my life onto a clubhouse of men. What I was looking for was someone to choose me and protect me …
And now, in the quiet of night, some of those moments replay as the trauma they actually were instead of the moments I romanticized them to be. Moving forward, I need to reconcile those two things. The ugly things I did, and the trauma I realize I’m dealing with.”
― S. Cole, The Hope We Dare