Here to Stay Quotes

“You’re the best thing to ever happen to me twice.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“I can’t,” he whispered, knowing he could, but wishing with every fiber of his being he didn’t have to.
“You can,” Will said. “You don’t have to do it well. You just have to do it.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“You broke and left, but then you came back. Because you were meant to be mine.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Love can bring out the best and worst in us. We’ve all been a jackass for love. But love makes us do amazing things. And if love drives us away, love is what brings us back. Love makes up pick up the phone. Love makes us listen. Love makes us say I’m sorry. Love makes us forgive. Love makes us better. Love makes us our best.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“I'm still learning how to feel what I feel as I'm feeling it.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Leaving isn’t always the end of loving.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Uncle Erik,” Jack said, appearing on the other side of the screen. “Let’s go fishing.”
“I can’t,” Erik said, his eyes closed.
“Why not?”
“Because I’m loving your aunt right now.”
Jack sucked his teeth. “You can love her anytime you want.”
“But I want to love her right now.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“I really believe this. Souls have a purpose and their energy belongs with a certain other energy. They go where they belong. It’s not random…”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“to become a parent was to go around with your heart flayed open for the rest of your life. Moving the earth and giving your best for your kids, with no guarantee your best would be enough to keep them safe.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“I didn’t come back to fight you. I came back to fight for you.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Maybe that’s life. Trading in one tragedy for a better tragedy.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“A watershed moment exists in every man's life...sometimes it's profound, sometimes it's barely a blip. But every man has the moment when he stops being his mother's son and becomes another woman's man. When he goes from protected to protector.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“All of the little triumphs of their love story had been banked away over the years, accumulating interest. Now they made lavish withdrawals, cashed in every bond, every insurance policy.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“I don’t know what I’d do without you.
“You’ll never have to know.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“I love you so much,” he said. But his voice was hoarse and the first two words got lost. You so much. It settled into his heart like a creed. He said it again. “You so much.” She turned her head up to him. “So much you,” she said.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Whatever you have, you give it to me. Whatever you put in my way, I will move it. I’m not afraid of anything you show me. I’ll never leave you.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“To become a parent was to go around with your heart flayed open for the rest of your life.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Time was plentiful, a spilling basket of golden minutes and hours. Time was a gift from this girl who had waited for him to find her.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Love can bring out the best and worst in us. We've all been a jackass for love. But love makes us do amazing things. And if love drives us away, love is what brings us back. Love makes us pick up the phone. Love makes us listen. Love makes us say I'm sorry. Love makes us forgive. Love makes us better. Love makes us our best. And love makes more love...”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Love can bring out the best and worst in us. We’ve all been a jackass for love. But love makes us do amazing things. And if love drives us away, love is what brings us back. Love makes us pick up the phone. Love makes us listen. Love makes us say I’m sorry. Love makes us forgive. Love makes us better. Love makes us our best. And love makes more love...and…I”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Fuck everything else,” they whispered. “I just need you.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Do you trust I want you and I want us? Do you trust I’m here to stay this time?”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Love came from all directions. On paper, on screens, in dishes and words and deeds.
We’re thinking of you every minute.
I’m sorry.
We’re sorry.
We’re so sorry…”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“She looked me in the eye and said, 'If I lose him, I will die.' I didn't think for a nanosecond she was exaggerating.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“I don't have one word for what I feel, he said. It's a thousand things at the same time.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“I know how to dance,” she said. “And I know how to love you.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“You can bury your pain or avoid it. You can tattoo over it. But you won’t be free of it until you feel it.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“You’re still the one I can tell anything. You’re still the one, when my sentences run out of words, you finish them by looking at me. But at the same time you’re surprising me. I still get to discover you. I love who you’ve become. And I love that who I’ve become still works with you.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“More and more aware how the past was made up of stepping stones to now. No coincidences. No accidents. You gravitated toward and attracted the people you were meant to have in your life.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Don't leave me."
"I can't, I'll never breathe again.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay