One Day Soon Quotes

“A happy story doesn’t always have a happy ending,”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“Even when I had nothing, he was everything.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“You’re my smile, Imi. Always have been.” He kissed me with abandon. A passion unleashed. “Always will be,” he murmured into my mouth.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“You’re not the same. Neither of us are. But I know that I will love the man as much as I loved the boy.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“And she never knew that in all those years, my soul was always, forever hers.
As my days dwindled into nothing, she was my constant.
She had no idea that everything I was would always revolve around her.
That when things were at their bleakest, she had always been, would always be, my happy life.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“Maybe after all these years I was still just that girl standing in the rain. Waiting for a boy who would never come.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“I know who you are in here. I trusted the eighteen-year-old boy who made sure I was fed. Who protected me. Who loved me. And I trust the man he became. Sure, people can change, but I see who you are.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“It feels like I’m falling, Imi,” he breathed. “I’ll catch you,” I promised.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“Years had passed; I should have long since let go. But how did you let go of something that never really felt over? How did you let go of someone that had changed you from the inside out?”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“But if I can’t have that dream with you, will you live it anyway?”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“The boy I loved … My savior. My protector.
He had helped me when he didn’t have to.
He had taken care of me. He had made sure I was warm. Fed. That I had a place to lay my head at night.
Even when he couldn’t keep himself safe, he made sure that I had been. He put me first. Always.
God, I had missed him.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“We’ll walk on the beach, Imi, and we’ll dance on the sand. Because one day soon, I promise you that all this ugly will become something beautiful.”
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“I know, Yoss. One day soon”.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“I won’t leave you, Imi, not ever. You and me, we’re a definite. I don’t have anything if I don’t have you. You have to believe that.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“Seize the moments you’re given, otherwise the world will eat you up and spit you out.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“No matter how horrified she had been, her love held her prisoner. It was up to me to set her free.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“Life takes turns that we don’t expect and even the best of us can end up in a place we never expected.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“Don't give away what you can't afford to lose.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“It’s been fifteen years, Imi. You don’t know anything about the person I’ve become. How can you say we’re anything to each other?”
I put my hand on his chest, ignoring the feel of his ribs beneath his skin. I pressed my palm over his heart. Thud. Thud. Thud.
“I know who you are in here. I trusted the eighteen-year-old boy who made sure I was fed. Who protected me. Who loved me. And I trust the man he became. Sure, people can change, but I see who you are.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“I’m sorry, Imi.” His apology whispered in my ears as I left the room. But it was the words that followed that burrowed deep.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t be who you deserved.”
I stopped just before opening the door.
“I’m sorry I believed that you already were,” I responded softly.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“What Yoss and I had shared was more than first love.
It was deeper than adolescent lust and affection.
It had been soul changing.
Life altering.
It had been a reckless attachment during bleak, dangerous times.
It had been a light in a murky darkness that had almost consumed us both.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“Are you my girl?” He sounded breathless. His whole body vibrating with anticipation.
“How can I be your girl when you haven’t even kissed me yet?” I asked boldly.
“I’m scared to kiss you,” he whispered, his lips quivering, his green eyes full.
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“I want to be yours,” I told him sincerely.
Yoss reached up and covered my hand with his. “I want to be yours,” he echoed.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“Here was a boy barely holding himself together. He seemed as though he wanted to curl into himself. I wanted to shield him from everything horrible. Everything ugly.
Just as he had been trying to do for me.
…
He was someone who had been forced to make choices that would shatter most people. I could see the fragments being chipped away little by little as he struggled to hold on.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“We had felt like a force of nature. Unstoppable. Destined. We thrived on the passion and confidence of youth that left no room for doubt. We loved each other. And in the ugly world we had inhabited, it was a light we had clung to.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“His tears fell on my face, mingling with my own. We sobbed. We laughed. We promised. We fell apart. And when it was over I knew that neither of us would ever be the same. I loved him with the foolish loyalty of a”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“At one time I had been able to read Yoss clearly. He never hid his emotions from me. He loved openly. He despaired loudly. He raged forcefully.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“And like the messed up dude in that novel, I just want to live forever as long as it’s with you.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“If you want it, you can have it, Imogen. Don’t make excuses because you’re scared,” he remarked harshly, almost angrily.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon

“Sometimes you make good choices. Sometimes you make bad ones. But they're all made for a reason that seems to make sense at the time.”
― A. Meredith Walters, One Day Soon