Keeping Jahleel Quotes

“But it’s a lie. No relationship is perfect. There’s always an ugly story swept under a rug of happy pictures and smiles. ‘Cause when you find the one, it’s just too fuckin’ hard to give them up, no matter the pain, no matter the shame, no matter the cost. So we have to patch up that fuckin’ rift, and love with a broken love. And it will challenge us to love harder, stronger, with more faith. Love fierce enough to overcast that rift, to make sure it never breaks open again.”
― Cole Books, Keeping Jahleel

“Saskia stopped speaking when Jahleel started searching all around. Pulling out the desk drawers and closing them. Looking under the desk. Emptying his sweats pockets, pulling them inside out. “Wha-what are you doing?” she asked with a tinge of hope to her voice. “Looking for a fuck to give.”
― Cole Books, Keeping Jahleel

“I’d rather pluck my other eye out and hand it over to her. So she’ll have four eyes and I’ll have none. So I’ll have to follow wherever she leads. That’s how much I love her.” He turned away from Marsha and rolled onto his side, staring unseeing at Claire’s flowery wall. “Blind in love. I’d rather be blind in love than hurt her.”
― Cole Books, Keeping Jahleel