Under the Lights Quotes

“I want more than that. I want you. I want to be able to kiss you anytime I want. I want to hold your hand in the halls. Hell, I want to be made fun of by the guys for wanting to be near you all the time.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“​Escaping into books had been my only relief in life”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights – Gunner und Willa: Roman (Field Party 2)

“Loving someone meant getting hurt”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“Loving someone doesn’t mean allowing them to use you for their benefit. It just means they have a place in your heart. A place that they earned.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“-You okay?
-Am I ever?”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“When it all started to dry up and the heaviness that I'd carried for so long began to was, giving me my first real deep breaths in months. I lifted my head to look up at him. This boy who I never expected to be my hero. This boy who had been by my side through so many of my life's changes. Maybe it had always been, but I had never known it, or understood it. But I knew now. I loved Gunner Lawton.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“I didn't want to love Gunner Lawton. Not in a way he could break me. I was too broken already.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“The tree house..Brady...Holy Shit! That was Willa Ames.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“Tragedy strikes us all at one point in our life. People make mistakes, and some are lucky enough to walk away without lasting marks, while others live a lifetime with the choice they made.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“Loving someone doesn't mean allowing the to use you for their benefit. It just mean they have a place in your heart. A place that they earn”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“I think about you too. I miss you reading Percy Jackson to me at night. Mom won’t do it.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“currently in his father’s office being”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“I wasn’t sure my heart agreed. It was hurting while I was smiling. Willa was my favorite part about life. She made things better by just smiling. Her laugh could completely fix my bad mood. When no one else was around to understand, Willa did. The day I caught her playing in my tree house had been the luckiest day of my life.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“We had snuck off a few times and walked to the high school just to stand there under the lights. All of us. We made our plans and built our dreams. In all those dreams, Willa was there.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“I love you” was his response. “I have forever. I just didn’t understand it until you came back into my life and completed me again.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“Willa was the best thing that ever happened to me. When I was a little boy and now. Both times she walked into my life and gave me a reason to smile. A reason to hope for more.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“I’d never told anyone I loved them.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“Not once had I forgotten to bring her whatever baked good Ms. Ames had on the kitchen table since the first day she’d ridden with me. I liked doing it for her, and I liked the way she smiled when it was there waiting on”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“The worn book in my hands smelled of old paper and libraries. I loved that smell.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“One thing I’d learned was good literature was good literature no matter what genre or year it was written.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“But for Gunner and me, it was a reality we lived with. We always knew we weren’t alone. We had each other, and that helped through the hardest times.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“Willa was mine. I didn’t want to share her with Brady,”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“trying to ignore.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights

“I love you, my Willa. You made mistakes and suffered greatly for them. I’ll be here to help you heal. You’re never alone.”
― Abbi Glines, Under the Lights