The Collar Quotes

“I don’t want your apology. I want your obedience.”
― Tara Sue Me, The Collar

“Mr. Sue Me, one day we’ll be reunited with our own two angels. If you get there before me, tell them I love them and never forgot. I’ll do the same for you.”
― Tara Sue Me, The Collar

“Memories,” Dena said. “I battled memories the entire time I was in Colorado. My own. Jeff’s. Why do we carry the past around like a weight?”
“Because we’re afraid of losing it. Or we think if we don’t carry it around we’ll forget who we are.”
― Tara Sue Me, The Collar

“If I’d been paying closer attention—”
“It wouldn’t have changed anything. It was nothing you did. Nothing.” His voice was soft but firm. “I was living with you, remember? You did everything right. It just wasn’t meant to be.”
“It’s so much easier to blame myself.”
“That’s because you want there to be a reason for everything, and in the absence of finding one, you make one up. The fact is, sometimes there’s not a reason. Sometimes things just are what they are.”
― Tara Sue Me, The Collar

“Letting you go ripped a hole in my heart so big it aches every time I breathe.”
Standing so close to him, she almost believed him. But it was easy to say the words. Words were cheap.”
― Tara Sue Me, The Collar

“He wasn’t a man who often admitted his feelings.
“You know damn well it would kill me if anything happened to you, Dena.”
Which was as close to an “I love you” as she was going to get out of him.”
― Tara Sue Me, The Collar

“When had a heart ever listened to rules?”
― Tara Sue Me, The Collar

“For those who wait with full hearts and empty arms.”
― Tara Sue Me, The Collar