When I Was Yours Quotes

“AND FOR THAT WONDROUS BRIEF MOMENT IN TIME, SHE WAS MINE, AND I WAS HERS.”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“There is nothing worse than loving someone when they don’t love you back, especially when you have only yourself to blame for it.”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“Max tells the approaching barman, “Couple of fingers of whiskey and another of whatever this asshat is nursing.” He squints at my glass. “What the fuck is that anyway? Water?”

“Vodka, neat, assface.”

“If you’re looking to get shitfaced, that’s the way to do it.”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“Livin’ on a Prayer,’ it is,” I sigh.

“Excellent choice.” Trixie gleefully claps her hands together.

“I kind of like it,” Evie says to me. “It’s a cool song, and it’s different for a wedding song.”

“It’s definitely different.” I give her a look.

She shakes her head at me, her lips twitching. “I bet there aren’t many people who can say they got married to ‘Livin’ on a Prayer.’”

“There’s a reason for that, babe.”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“There is nothing to worry about, honey. Adam has nothing to do with anything.” Except that he has something to do with everything. “He’s just someone I used to know.”

I have to stop myself from breaking out in song.”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“History is pulling me right back in with its steely claws, and I’m more than happy to let it. I’m shackling myself to that motherfucker and letting it lead me straight into hell.”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“It’s like the radio is playing a sick joke on me. I never listen to this song. Ever. I have successfully avoided hearing it in nearly ten years, and now that Evie’s sitting here beside me as we drive to the place where we met and fell in love, our wedding song starts to play on the fucking radio.

Well, fuck Bon Jovi and their fucking “Livin’ on a Prayer.”

I reach over and change the music station just as Jon Bon Jovi launches into a full warble. And what do I get? Bruno Mars wailing “When I Was Your Man.”

For fuck’s sake”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“My chest is tight again. It happens every time Grady calls me son. It’s the same when Richard calls me it, too.

I’ve either got serious daddy issues, or I’m heading for a heart attack. And the way I’ve been feeling around Evie lately, I’m thinking it might be the latter”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“Where do you want to go to…talk?”

Knowing Adam, he already knows where we’re going. He always was a take-charge person.

But I thought I should ask just so I know where I’m going to be killed before he dumps my body.

Just kidding. Kind of.”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“On Rock Girl’s shirt is a logo, covering the left breast, that I can’t quite make out. And trust me, I’ve tried. I’ve nearly gone blind, staring at that fucker, trying to work it out—not that staring at her tits is exactly a hardship.”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“Supposedly, I was trying to re-create the one time in my fucked-up life when I had felt truly happy—before it all went to shit.

Funny because, even though my life had sucked before Evie, ultimately, she was the sole reason it went down the path straight to hell.

I should’ve known from the moment I met her that, eventually, she’d be my downfall. I mean, I am Adam, and she’s my fucking Eve. It had been written in the cards.”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours

“I have tried to date in the past, but I could never get it to work. Trust is a big issue for me. Basically, I don’t trust anyone with a vagina. I think that, essentially, all women are untrustworthy cold bitches.

My therapist is still working on that one.

Apparently, that comes from mommy issues as well as my ex-wife issues.

As you can see, I’m not a good candidate for a relationship”
― Samantha Towle, When I Was Yours