Breaking Her Quotes

“Love changes you. No matter how strong you are, it makes you stronger. No matter how weak you are, it makes you weaker. No matter how hard you are to conquer, it will bring you to your knees.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“[...] my life has fallen into categories—in spite of everything—gradiatons of her.
Life before Scarlett. Life with Scarlett. Life after Scarlett.
Wanting her.
Needing her.
Having her.
Losing her.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“He's the best I ever had. And the worst thing that ever happened to me.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“I’m tired of hating you … When all my heart has ever needed is to love you.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“What are you doing here?" I asked him point blank.
"I'm here for the same reason I always come back to you. I've come for scraps. Anything you'll give me. I've come because I can't stay away.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“That was the burden of falling in love so young.  Of letting yourself go so deep into another person.  You owned too much of each other to ever really walk away.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“My chest ached at the sight.  To say I missed her was a cruel understatement, like saying you'd miss your soul after you gave it away.  After it was torn from you. I was empty. Flesh without blood.   I was not whole without her.   Never would be. I wasn't a big enough fool to believe that could ever change.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."   ~Rainer Maria Rilke”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Both of my trembling hands went up to cup her perfect, oh so beloved face. My voice was somehow steadier than my hands as I asked her my question. “Do you love me at least as much as you hate me?”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“The king of all of my regrets. The architect of every last drop of joy I’d ever tasted. My tormentor. My savior.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“We’d grown up as godless, savage creatures, believing in nothing so much as each other, and somehow it had always been enough.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“What are you doing here?” I asked him point blank.
His shaking hand pushed his hair impatiently back from his face. “I’m here for the same reason I always come back to you. I’ve come for scraps. Anything you’ll give me. I’ve come because I can’t stay away.” His voice was low and hoarse from the drink, but thick and dark with emotion. “I tried to. Don’t you know that I’m always trying to stay away? It doesn’t matter. It never works.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“My weakness and my strength, my purpose and my distraction, my redemption and my undoing.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“You're a lioness, not a lamb, and you don't need to apologize for it. You're overprotective and fiercely loyal. None of those are bad qualities. They're your strengths and I've always admired you for embracing them."
The best kind of friend is one that makes you feel like a better version of yourself.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“You've never been soft for anyone else.   You've never been vulnerable.  Those things belong to me."  He launched each jab at me without pity, hesitation, or remorse.  The bastard.  "They always have.  They always will.  You've never given the you that's mine to anyone else, and you never will.  Even your lying lips can't convince me otherwise.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Some promises are made before you ever say the words.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."  ~Charles Bukowski”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“But love changes you. No matter how strong you are, it makes you stronger. No matter how weak you are, it makes you weaker, No matter how hard you are to conquer, it will bring you to your knees.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Marriage is the most valuable, treasured friendship of your life," the”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

~Rumi”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

~Oscar Wilde”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

~Lao Tzu”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

~Phyllis Diller”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

~Oscar Wilde”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

~Eleanor Roosevelt”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

~Friedrich Nietzsche”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"

~Lily Tomlin”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away."

~Laurence J. Peter”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Love is born into every human being: it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."   ~Plato”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“My chest ached at the sight.  To say I missed her was a cruel understatement, like saying you'd miss your soul after you gave it away.  After it was torn from you. I was empty. Flesh without blood.   I was not whole without her.   Never would be. I”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her