Souls Unfractured Quotes

“For fractured souls are like magnets.
Drawn to collide into an impossible bliss.....”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“What are words? Sometimes the flick of a pair of eyes or the flush of skin reveals everything you need to know. Words can wound. Silence can heal.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“Because for me, you are truth. My truth. My heart, is all you.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“I know I'm different. I know I don't see the world like everyone else does. But I want to see your world, Maddie. Even if it's the only one I'll ever understand.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“I used to wonder how two people—one broken girl, and one broken boy—could ever move on from their dark and tortured pasts. But now I know. Together, that’s how. They fight their way through… together.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“I want to understand you, Maddie. I want to understand your world.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“We are Flame and Maddie. And we have survived.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“Words can wound. Silence can heal.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“Just like your picture, Maddie. I'm holding you just like your sketch.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“I felt him relax as he whispered, “I love you.” Smiling into his chest, I replied, “And I you, Flame.” Flame sighed and murmured, “Mine.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“his finger stroked along my cheek, and his lips began to move so gently against my lips. And I felt this kiss all the way to my soul.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“You, to me, are the only one I could ever love.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“But I didn’t bother looking up. What the fuck were the stars and moon, when I had her? I couldn’t take my eyes off her. I could barely fucking breathe.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“That you are my anchor. You are the one I was meant to find on this Earth.” Her finger stopped and she looked into my eyes. “That you are the one for me. Only you can understand me, Flame. No one else. You have spent your entire life lost, not understanding what people want, but with me, you always know how to make me happy. How to make me feel safe.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“My Flame, my tortured boy, had broken through the last of his defenses. He had found his voice. Flame, my always and forever, had found his song, like I had found mine. And through our love, he had finally found the courage to sing.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“A fucking pint-sized warrior.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“the unlikeliest of saviors. Flame, you saved me from him. From that life… from never knowing what it was like to hold hands. To kiss and to make such sweet love that it still feels like a dream. You have no idea how special you are to me.” Maddie held up our joined hands and said, “Even now, looking at these hands, I am terrified this is all in my head, that being here with you, is just another fantasy that will never be realized. That I am sitting at my window, sketching a future I pray will happen, before I blink and discover it is all in my head, that I must be content to simply watch you from afar.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“But will you follow me?” I prompted. Flame, this time, did meet my eyes and he replied, “Anywhere.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“But then something happened to me. Someone happened to me… You.” ”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“For fractured souls are like magnets. Drawn to collide into an impossible bliss…”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“That beat, that new lease of life pounding within my chest? It is his. The awakening of my heart belongs to Flame.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“I have to have her with me, all the time. All the fucking time.” I pounded my fist over my chest. “Can’t fucking breathe without her nearby. Need her to sleep with me. Need her to keep the flames away.” I ran my nails over the scars on my arm. “She ain’t ever leaving me again. For life, brothers. She’s mine for fucking life.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“She would never want me. I’m a fucking retard.” I hit the side of my head with the heel of my palm as my eyes blurred again. “I don’t think right in here. I’m fucked up—I don’t get people, they don’t get me. And I ain’t ever gonna be able to read people. Why would someone as perfect as her want someone as fucked up as me? Someone who isn’t right in the head?”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“I thought of Maddie and my chest swelled with pride. “She understands me. She understands what I gotta do. She’s stronger than she looks. She can take it.” My finger traced over a knot in the tabletop. “She knows who I am… both sides of me. She’s plenty strong enough.” AK shook his head and huffed out a laugh. “That she fucking is, brother. A fucking pint-sized warrior.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“Didn’t think you’d be going without us, did you? We’re the Psycho fucking Trio. You ain’t going nowhere alone.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“think perhaps, if you are told something often enough, you end up believing it. But maybe, just maybe, someone comes into your life and makes you question yourself. Makes you believe you are worth something.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“I wish to be alone with you. I wish to… touch you more. I wish to see you more… I wish, I think… I need to show you my love.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“My heart slammed in my chest. “Yeah. The most beautiful,” I answered.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“So that’ll be a yes. A huge fucking yes to the extreme makeover, Krueger edition.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured

“When we reached them, Viking sat up and withdrew the cigarette from his mouth. “Fuck me, Little One…” he trailed off as he pointed his finger at me from head to foot with his cigarette. “You, and fucking leather, are a match made in cowhide heaven.”
― Tillie Cole, Souls Unfractured