Divide Quotes

“But that’s where you’re wrong. I already have. I’ve found happiness with her in every lifetime you’ve given us together. You thought you cursed us to live this fate over and over, but all you really did was give us more time together than any two people should have. And you’ve cursed yourself to have to watch us fall in love all over again. Every time.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Even after you’ve been betrayed by those you loved most, you still trust so openly, don’t you?”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I cried for me. For my life, for my future, for the possibility that I would have neither one of them soon.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Love? Seriously? This isn’t a Disney movie, Mick. This is real life.” “Is love so hard to believe in?”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I knew we didn’t have a future”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I was supposed to have more time. So much more time. I was supposed to have time to earn her trust, her love.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Why wasn’t he running? How could he see me like this and still want to be near me, want to help me? How is he being so calm about this?”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I hated myself for still caring.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“He gently nipped at my bottom lip with his teeth, and I thought I’d melt right into him, right there in that movie theater. Here lies Holland Briggs. Completely undone by the best kisser she’d ever met.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“thinking of nothing else but the way his hand felt in mine. Warm, strong, safe . . . I didn’t want him to ever let go of me.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“How much time did I have before some unknown switch flipped, and the grayness in my eyes revealed something terrible inside me? How much longer could I ignore the change, the feeling of wrongness in my body? Whatever it was, it couldn’t be good. Not with how off I felt.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“My skin seemed to move, as if it was shimmering across the surface.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“No. I can’t hide every time something bad happens.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I couldn’t even remember what we talked about, just that I listened to her voice all Sunday afternoon. And I’d missed it ever since.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“He wouldn’t want me if he knew the truth—that something foreign was moving around inside me. Who would want to take on that kind of crazy?”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“but you know, the one to break the spell.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I threw my arm across my eyes. I was screwed.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I felt completely alone, and—I—I slipped into this really dark place.” I paused as the scars on my wrists seemed to throb their forever reminders.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I didn’t want him making promises. I didn’t want to believe them.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“He walked away from me like we hadn’t been together in one shape or form for our entire lives.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Ugh. Rod. I needed to stop letting my mind wander to him and Leslie. I had to move on. God knew they sure had.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Ugh. Stupid girl. Stop.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I wasn’t on the market. But, wow. He was . . . no. It didn’t matter.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I fought the strongest urge to get up and grab her chin with my fingers, to force her to meet my gaze so I’d never have to miss the rebellion in her eyes.”
― Jessa Russo, Divide: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling