Pocketful of Sand Quotes

“I don’t have anything to give you, Eden.  I’m broken.  More than I ever thought I could be.  But you can have what’s left of me.  If you want it.  You can have what little I have to give.” “That’s all I want, Cole.  That’s all I want.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“I think broken people gravitate toward one another, like our shattered pieces connect on a level that unscarred people never know.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“Never forget.  Never again.  There are a lot of nevers in my life.” I feel tears sting my eyes.  “Am I a never now?” “I think you always were.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“I crave him like I crave sunshine and air and water and love.   His scent, his taste, they weave a sensual spell around me, flooding my blood with heat and need.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“She’s beauty for my ashes. And I’m hope for her heartache.  We fit.  Like we were made for each other.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“Why do all the hot ones have to be so damn crazy?” she asks, sounding exasperated. “Why do you say that? I mean that he’s crazy?” Without looking at me, she answers.  “Because he definitely is.  He’s, like, talks-to-dead-people crazy.  One-flew-over-the-cuckoo’s-nest crazy.  Twelve-monkeys crazy.”  She stops in the middle of the road and looks me in the eye.  “Not that it makes him any less attractive.  I mean, God, what I wouldn’t give to get that man naked. I’d do him six ways from Sunday.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“You’re like the town bicycle. You give rides. You don’t date.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“Cole Danzer.”  His voice.  God!  It makes me want to groan.  It’s like a silk sheet draped over jagged gravel.  It belongs in a bedroom.  A dark, warm bedroom.  Where pleasure and pain peacefully coexist,”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“And if ever there was a body made to go around shirtless, it’s his.  But that’s not what pulls me to the window time after time, day after day.  It’s not even the tattoos scrawled up his ribs–the one on the left reading “always”, the one on the right reading “never”.  No, there’s something else that brings me here to watch him.  Something…more. ”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“She’s beauty for my ashes. And I’m hope for her heartache.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“But I never loved her. Not the way I should’ve. Not the way I love you.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“This is the man I thought him to be.  This is the man I had hoped was underneath the broken and brooding man on the beach and across the street.  This is a man that could change everything for me.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“Maybe if you kiss him, you’ll be happy, too.” “I thought boy kisses were gross,” I say, reminding her of her opinion of the stronger sex thus far in life. “Not for big girls.  For big girls, they’re magic.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“Some babies aren’t meant to stay down here with their mommas.  And their daddies.   Some babies are angels.  And angels are meant to be in heaven.”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“bet you’d make a great mom,” Cody says from beside Emmy.   His soft blue eyes are fixed appreciatively on Jordan. I’ve”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand

“feel”
― M. Leighton, Pocketful of Sand