Watching the Sky Cry Quotes

“I came here because, for me, no matter how much it hurt the last time I left all those years ago, it feels like…home.”
He crossed the room to me, opened his hand, and placed it palm flat against my chest as his voice cracked. “My home is here,” he said.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“Even if the woman who had my heart, my eternal love, didn’t choose me, I could be there to help her rise from the ashes and once again be my sky.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“Rylie,” he said gently. “I love you. I’ve loved you since I understood what the word meant. I love who you are now, who you were then. And I’m gonna love you no matter what happens tomorrow, or next week, or next year.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“My heart had healed with the balm of another, love blossoming, love renewed, reunited in the arms of the first man who’d treasured it, and treasured it still.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“He leaned down and kissed me again, more chaste this time. “Now, we get to know each other. When it happens, whether it happens tonight or another one, I just want it to mean to you what it’ll mean to me.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“I used to tell you everything,” I said, wistfully recalling all the letters and phone calls from years past.
“You did.”
No bullshit.
Honesty.
I lifted up to my tiptoes, so I could almost look him eye to eye, and said, “I’m really looking forward to having sex with you, Quentin.”
At my admission, he threw his head back and filled the entire first floor of his house with laughter.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“I didn’t want a casual fuck, nor did I want a lover. I wanted him to take my soul as his own, fill my heart with his words, and love me with everything he was and ever would be.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“I was too young to understand what letting you go meant when I was eighteen. Now I know, and I don’t plan on giving up this time.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“You have always and will always be my first. My first love, the first girl I ever kissed, the first girl I ever touched. The mind is a powerful thing, and I know for a fact the fantasy of you will always be better than the reality of anyone else. You are my heart. You are my saviour. You are my sky.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“This isn’t…” I hiccupped, “how I imagined this going.”
“Yeah?” he said softly. “How’d you imagine it?”
“We would have it out, and then we’d have angry sex, and then we’d fall in love and have babies and live happily ever after.”
See? Honesty.
“Oh Rylie,” he said with humor in his voice, not at all bothered when he wiped the edges of my disgusting mouth with his hand. “I’ll be pissing you off again…probably on purpose just so we can have that angry sex you just mentioned.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry