Alphas Like Us Quotes

“Lo focusses on me. “Are you willing to show my son the same respect that I’ve raised him to show you?”
Maximoff makes a face. “Where the fuck are these questions coming from?”
I watch as Lo digs into his pocket and pulls out a crumbled piece of paper. “Questions for the Overly Tattooed Boyfriend of My Perfect Son Dot Com.” He gives me an iconic dry smile. “I hate tattoos.”
“I know,” I say with a nod. “Good thing your son loves them.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“When I love someone,” he says in a rough whisper, “I love them proudly, and you deserve the achingly normal, romantic shit more than anyone.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“You said you wanted an in-your-face, overjoyed kind of love that knocks you backwards.” He takes a beat. “But our love is that and better. Our love is headstrong. It never yields, never dies. And when it knocks you backwards, it pulls you upright again.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“I try to explain in my own words, and I gesture to his chest. “It's in your bones; it's what keeps you alive. The foundation of your body. To suck out all the marrow of life... I think about how Thoreau went into the woods and stripped life to the barest necessities. To learn what life is really made of, the feeling of water slipping between fingers, the chilled glass in my hand, the wind that rustles your damn hair. And I think about how I feel these barest things every day with you. To live life at its most essential level so as to fully live.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“It feels like every time I try to come up for air, someone else shits on you or me or us, and the only time I can breathe is when I’m looking at you.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“His forehead almost touches mine, our lips nearly skimming as he whispers, “You’re holding me.” His husky voice quakes, his hand clutching my jaw. “And my arms are tight around you, and your chest is against my chest.”
Tears scald our eyes, and we breathe and breathe, and I whisper, “You know, my heart is in your hands.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“I inhale, trying not to smile. “Maybe I can try to accept your apology.”
“Maybe,” he repeats like I’m full of shit and I’ve already scribbled hearts about M + F in my diary. Just so you know, I don’t have a diary. And if I did…Farrow would be all over it.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“Look at me,” I say, my voice husky. “Wolf scout.” His chest falls, muscles still flexed. My pulse thumps. I skim his striking but also tensed face, and my hand slides across his broad shoulder and rises slowly up his neck. I hold his jaw; I tighten his hand in my hand, and my lips veer to his ear. “Maximoff Hale, will you marry me?” He flinches, eyes widening and brows knotting with a thousand questions, and even more philosophical queries.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“Maximoff isn’t cautious or worried. His lips inch upward. “You’re in my world.” He’s excited about that.
I nod a few times. “It’s a good thing I love your world, wolf scout. And that your world is mine.” That gets to us both.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“Rowin glances briefly at Farrow’s hand on me, then he scribbles on the chart. His eyes land on me for a short second. “You’re too sweet to be with someone like Farrow.”
Farrow rubs my leg. “You’d be surprised how much of a dick Maximoff is.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“You know, the hardest things are usually the right things.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“Some guy.” He’s lying. It was definitely full of me. He tries to hook our fingers, but I pull back slightly, teasingly. He glares. “I’m just some guy,” I remind him. “No,” Maximoff says, firm and final. “You’re the guy.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“We’re getting our Meredith back.” He slow-claps. I smile. “Man, you know I’m a Christina.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“Love is pain, and you know what...Ifeel sorry for anyone who hasn't met it yet.”
― Becca Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“Farrow smiles like he’s already beat me and raced miles ahead. “See, I would’ve never touched your right hand even if you blindfolded me. And I’m a doctor. I know which parts of you are off limits. So technically, if you feel a sharp pain, it’s your fault.” Everything he just said… stirs my cock. My blood rushes downward, and the beep beep of the heart rate monitor suddenly accelerates to beepbeep beepbeep beepbeep. Fuuuck. Farrow laughs hard. “Shut up.” I growl out my frustration and rub my face with my left hand. Alright, new plan. Focus on other shit besides sex.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“I think about what Farrow once told me. It’s the little things. It really is.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“my childhood crush, my bodyguard, my doctor, my fiancé—all Farrow Redford Keene.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“On a day that rocked us both, he said he loved that quote. It was a quiet moment inside a storm.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“He’s the iron-willed guy I saw at Harvard who needed all of me, and I had to wait years before I could give him everything.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“Did your mom and I not teach you the art of being a couch potato? Jesus Christ, I’ve truly failed as a parent.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“While I breathe,’” he translates, “‘I hope.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“I know and he knows that what we share is greater and stronger than whatever the world has to throw at us.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“Cicero said, ‘The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“I live my life for most of the world to see—for you to see—but there are a lot of moments just meant for him. And this is one.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“Just so you know, I don’t have a diary. And if I did…Farrow would be all over it.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“I’m lightning then, and you’re thunder. You always follow me every time I appear.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“And when I agitate you and I really hit a nerve, you’ll joke about how you wish you died in this car crash.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“You’re stuck with me, wolf scout. I’ll annoy the shit out of you every single morning for decades.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“You will see your sisters grow up to be old women and you’ll see your brother become an old man—and I’ll be right by your side.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us