Fighting Solitude Quotes

“If it happens to you, then I have to deal with it too. You watch my back, and I watch yours. It’s the most important rule of being best friends.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“Love is different. It’s not a one-size-fits-all. And it’s definitely not universal or transferable. There are no shoes to fill. Whatever you and Quarry have is unique to the two of you.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“She shot me the glare I’d expected. “You’re not sleeping in here!”
“Yes, I am.”
“No.”
“Yes.”
“No.”
“Yes.” I grabbed her hand to stop her from signing again. “It’s late, and we have a date tomorrow night.”
Her eyes grew wide as she yanked her hand from my grasp. “We do not have a date.”
“Yes, we do.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“When he leaned down and caught her mouth in a kiss, I heard the actual crunch of the shards of my heart being stomped on.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“Me: 2% for Flint is my entire salary! What the hell? Quarry: No hablo Inglés. Me: No seas un cabrón tacaño y dame el maldito aumento! Flint: Runs to Google Translate. Quarry: Waste of time. They don’t do all the cuss words. I tried.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“I don’t know why you and I had to suffer to get here, but this right here is how it was always supposed to be.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“She entered my life during a brief period when all the stars had momentarily aligned.
It wasn’t until it all exploded, throwing my entire world out of orbit, that I realized she was the greatest gift I’d ever been given.”
― aly martinez, Fighting Solitude

“I’d have taken up residence on a park bench if that’s where you were.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“I refuse to let you fight me on this. I refuse to deny the way I feel about you. And I absolutely refuse to let you deny what you feel for me. You want this. I get that you’re scared, but trust me, I will make this work for us.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“Welcome home.” Taking both of her hands, I tugged them around my hips and then placed them on my ass. “Where ass- grabbing is now a requirement.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“I lifted her hand to my chest, settling it over my heart. “This doesn’t change. It’s you and me to the core. I’m not going anywhere, and neither are you. If it happens to you, it happens to me, remember. And this is definitely happening to us. Please don’t fight it.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“Every single day,” I admitted. “Every. Single. Day.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“Every single day, I smiled. Every single day, I lived. Every single day, I laughed. And, every single night, I stared at my ceiling, trying to figure out why none of those things left me feeling even an ounce of contentment.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“You are, and always have been, the one person in my life who has the ability to destroy me. For years, I clung to you, knowing that, as long as I kept you close, I didn’t have to be scared of anything else. You, Quarry Page, are the embodiment of my greatest fear” … “Getting into a relationship with you – giving you the few guarded pieces of my heart you didn’t already own is the scariest thing I can fathom. Losing you is frightening. Trusting you not to break me is petrifying.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“Tell me you don’t want me … Don’t love me … Tell me this doesn’t feel like the rest of your life.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“This…Being here with you…I’m scared.”
“Don’t be. Please, God, don’t be scared … We’ll figure this out, I swear … I’ve survived a lot in my life. But that? Losing you? I wouldn’t have recovered.” I pressed a gentle kiss to her lips. “Then, tonight, I found out that you’ve always been mine. Every. Single. Day.”. … “It’s been a hard twenty-four hours. Just give me, like, eight more of sleeping next to you, and then you can have all day tomorrow to twist shit up in your head. I’ll untangle it” – I paused to smirk – “on our date.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“You were in the middle of some kind of barbaric mating ritual, but yeah, I came.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“You made me see that friendship is a farce and trusting anyone other than myself is the biggest mistake I could make. It was a lesson I had been learning my whole life up until that point. But you tattooed it on my soul in a way I could never forget.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“I palmed each side of her face and dropped my forehead to hers. “I love you. I love you. I love you.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“This was one fight I couldn’t walk away from.
Quarry Page versus Quarry Page.
The man who suddenly and desperately wanted to claim her versus the man who would protect her at all costs – even from myself.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“Liv James was absolutely everything to me.
Well, almost.
She wasn’t mine.
Yet.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“When we were kids, we couldn’t even dream of something this big.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“She wasn’t mine. Yet. See, when a man is in love with a woman, he doesn’t allow himself to see the perfections in anyone else. I had been so blinded by my devotion to Mia that, while I’d seen Liv daily, I hadn’t truly recognized the insanely sexy and desirable woman she was. That is, until one night,”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“Every. Single. Day.
Forever.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude

“You are, and always have been, the one person in my life who has the ability to destroy me. For years, I clung to you, knowing that, as long as I kept you close, I didn’t have to be scared of anything else. You, Quarry Page, are the embodiment of my greatest fear.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Solitude