The Traveling Woman Quotes

“But my beautiful boy was broken. I eased my hand free from his and leaned down to brush a kiss across his lips, sealing a promise that I’d made to him. “I love you so much. So much. You brought magic into my world the first day I saw you, and every day since—even when we were apart and I didn’t want to remember. I won’t let them take the magic away, Kes. I won’t.” I kissed him again, feeling the soft prickle of stubbled cheeks. “I’ll be back tomorrow, because you’ll never be rid of me. Not ever.” And if I listened very carefully, I could hear his heart beating out a message, Love you more.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“Hey, baby,” he said quietly, his eyes searching my face. “I fucked up. I’m sorry.” It killed me to hear those words, I’m sorry. Ever since I’d known him, I’d wanted Kes to apologize for something, anything. He never had. Until now. It was too much like giving in, and I hated it. I took a shuddering breath. I will not cry. “I go away for a few days and you get yourself all beat up.” He gave me a small smile. “Yeah, I really did.” I leaned down to kiss him, resting my cheek against his chest. I felt his fingers in my hair and his warm breath on my neck. “I’m so sorry, baby.” “No,” I said firmly. “Don’t be sorry—just get better, okay?” He didn’t reply and I stood up to look into his eyes. I needed to hear him say it. I needed him to commit to this with me. “Aimee . . .” My lip trembled at the depth of devastation that I heard in his voice. So I clamped my teeth together. “Kes, don’t . . .” He sighed and turned his head away from me. “Aimee, if I don’t . . . if I can’t . . .” “Kes,” I begged. “Please don’t say it.” “I don’t want this for you,” he said quietly. “I wanted to give you the world.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“When he performs, he is all of us, the person we wish we could be. He is the hero in all of us.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“What am I going to do with you?” I smiled as he kissed along my neck.
“Marry me,” he said. “You could marry me.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“Kes wasn’t safe. He wasn’t a sensible choice. He made my heart race, and swoop, and die a little. When I was near him, I burned. When he was far away, my blood moved sluggishly, reluctantly, cooling without his heat. Maybe we’d burn together. But maybe, just maybe, we’d fly.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“Maybe magic happens when you let it.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“I’m so fucking happy you’re here,” he said, resting his forehead against mine.
“I’m not just here,” I whispered. “I’m home.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“His element was the air around him. I had roots and he had wings – could they ever work together?”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“One track mind,” I muttered.
He shook his head. “I’m eating, taking and thinking about fucking – that’s called multitasking.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“Don’t know what you see in him.”
She shrugged. “He’s pretty, and when he goes down on me, I cum like a volcano.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“You’ve always been my girl, Aimee. The only one who ever mattered. You know that, right?”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“Hide sighed. “Just like his brother – always on the go. Sometimes I just want to lie in bed and sleep – without sex.”
I burst out laughing. “I can’t imagine that happening anytime soon.”
Hilde grinned at me. “I would probably complain if it did. But I save money on my gym membership. My thighs could crack walnuts.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“I really want to take you to bed now, Aimee. I really fucking need to know that you’re my girl.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“God, Aimee, we’ll make it work,” he growled out against my skin. “I know we can make it work. Don’t ever leave me again. Please, baby, please.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“Do you want kids?” I asked tentatively.
“It’s just you’ve never said anything before.”
Kes paused as he kicked off his pants. His eyes were guarded when he replied.
“Don’t you?”
“I do. I think I do. Not yet, but one day.”
Kes stared at me steadily.
“Do you want my kids?”
And then I understood . My poor boy still didn’t believe that I’d stay. Why should he? No one in his world ever had before.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“It hurt so badly to be away from you. I suppose if my parents’ marriage taught me anything, it was not to be the person who was left behind. So I ran, afraid that you would run first, sooner or later.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“I didn’t leave because I didn’t love you enough, Kes; I left because I loved you too much, and it was breaking my heart that you couldn’t trust me. I’d done everything I could to fit into your world, and it still wasn’t enough. There were things about your life that you didn’t want to share with me—you must see that there’s no future in a relationship like that?”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“He was apologizing, I knew, but it would have been nice to hear the words, just once.
“You hurt me,” I said quietly.
He kissed the top of my head, I’m sorry .
“You embarrassed me in front of those people.”
Another kiss, I didn’t mean it.
“We’re supposed to be a team: if you’ve got a plan, you should tell me about it.”
And I felt his lips against my forehead. I know. I will, I promise ”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“We had trust, yes, but the practicalities hadn’t changed. Our lives were thousands of miles apart, and our dreams didn’t seem to be any closer together either. Something would have to give. Or rather, one of us would have to give”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“Kes leaned back in his chair and stared at me appraisingly.
He wants you but he can’t have you. I know how that feels.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman