Calico Quotes

“I couldn’t have forgotten about you even if I’d tried. The seas could have frozen over. The heavens could have come crashing down to earth. Time could have stood still, and I would never have been able to cleanse myself of you.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“Hey, bluebird,” he whispers. “I’ve been dreaming about you.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“I know you. I see into you. Your heart is my heart. Your breath is my breath. Your soul is my soul. Your pain… your pain is my fucking pain. So don’t expect me to believe you when you say you stopped loving me, because I looked you in the eye when you said goodbye to me, bluebird. My heart broke when yours did. My lungs stopped breathing when yours did. My soul hurt when yours did. My pain felt like it was killing me, just like yours did. You loved me then. You never stopped. You still love me now, the same way I still fucking love you.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“I fucking know you, Coralie Taylor.” He stabs his own chest with his index finger. “I fucking know you. I took one look at you back in that library and I knew you. I always have and I always will. That’s never going to change. You can run away for ten years. You can change your hair… wear different clothes… but there’s not a damn thing you can do to hide your soul from mine. It’s far too late for that.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“And if you say you’d be a bluebird, then I’d love it if you were my bluebird.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“Just let go. Stop fighting. Stop working so hard to hate me. Hating me feels safe, I know, but loving me would be so much better. How can anything terrible come from something so beautiful? The way I love you feels beautiful to me, bluebird. It doesn’t make me scared. It doesn’t make me angry, or make me feel cheated. Loving you is just part of what makes me who I am. I knew that the moment I met you, and you did, too.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“The present and the future can’t change the past,” he whispers. “But the passing of time makes the pain at our backs less severe. All we have to do is face forward and look into the light.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“Loving you is just part of what makes me who I am. I knew that the moment I met you, and you did, too.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“When Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, he didn’t come close to what we had.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“You were raised in violence, but your soul doesn’t crave it, bluebird. Despite everything, you’re still gentle inside. You’re still you.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“I feel… lost,” I whisper. “I hurt. I hurt so much.” I look up into the face of the man who stole my heart so long ago, and I know without a doubt that I’m still deeply in love with him. It’s a crippling realization— one I’ve been denying for so long. Callan’s expression is fierce, protective and possessive all at once. How can he feel this way after so long? How can he still want to love me? Or even be near me after everything we both put each other through?
“I hurt, too,” he says quietly. “But you have the ability to make that hurt stop, bluebird. Just like I can take your pain away. Every last scrap of it. I won’t rest until the past is dead and buried and you’re happy, if you let me. Please. Please… please just let me.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“You shouldn’t even be here. Why did you come back? Why? To torment me? To break my heart? Because let me tell you…” She snatches up her bag and fights to get the straps over her shoulder. “I can’t be any more tormented. And my heart can’t get any more broken. Both tasks are already complete.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“You can’t possibly know the depths of my relationship with my boyfriend, of whether I’d marry him.”
I lean across the table, “Oh, but I do. I know. I know perfectly well. You might say yes if he asked you. You might even make it to the fucking church on your wedding day. But you know as well as I do that the moment you started to walk down that aisle, you’d see that it was wrong. That you shouldn’t do it. Because there’s only one man on the face of this planet you should ever be getting married to, and it’s sure as shit not Ben the Good Samaritan. It’s me.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“Back then I loved you like a kid. Now I plan on loving you like a man”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“No matter what we are or who created us, we’re all energy. And energy that becomes bound together by love cannot be torn apart. Not by time. Not by grief and pain. Not even the veil of death.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“part of what makes me who I am. I knew that the moment I met you, and you did, too.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“love you. You know that, don’t you? I love every part of you.” He smiles, nudging my shoulder with the end of his nose. “I love your crazy, weird eyes. I love your non-symmetrical face. I love the way you look at things, trying to figure out how you’re going to paint them. I love the way you hum when you’re trying to concentrate. And I love how you look at me, Coralie.” “How do I look at you?” “Like you love me, too. Like there are things about me that make your heart swell in your chest. Like you might love me enough to be with me for the rest of your life.” He takes a lock of my hair and twists it gently around his fingers. “Is that how you feel?” he whispers. “Is that what you want?”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“The present and the future can’t change the past,” he whispers. “But the passing of time makes the pain at our backs less severe. All we have to do is face forward and look into the light. Behind us may be dark, bluebird, but I know it in my bones. There are great things up ahead.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“No, the frigid, cold, empty thing that lives inside me showed up the day after my mother died. It told me it was pointless to care about people. It told me it was useless to consider what they think or feel or desire out of life.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“The present and the future cannot change the past…but the passing of time makes the pain at our backs less severe”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“What makes you different from the rest of the herd?” He winks at me. “My seven inch cock, of course.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“Fuck, bluebird. You’re the only thing I want in this life.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“We’ve been through so much,” he whispers. “You were my first, and I was yours.” His voice is strained, controlled, like he’s having trouble keeping it together. “But we’re adults now, Coralie. Back then I loved you like a kid. Now I plan on loving you like a man. Do you know what that means? Do you think you can handle that kind of fucking?”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“Don’t ever pretend that we weren’t for real, Coralie. Don’t ever pretend that what we felt wasn’t a lifelong, consuming, powerful thing, because I know you still fucking feel it.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“It’s almost too much to bear that he’s so close to me and he’s looking at me like he wants to take me into his arms and hold me there forever.”
― Callie Hart, Calico

“Rae seems to think about this. “So, who’s worse, then—me, the woman who knows no better, or you, the man who sins with full knowledge of his actions?” I return Rae’s awful smile, feeling my insides turn a shade blacker. “Me. I’m the worst. You know this.” She nods, because she does. “It”
― Callie Hart, Calico