Touching Down Quotes

“How do you go and fall in love with someone new when you left your heart with someone else?”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“I can’t do this to you again,” I whispered, lowering my eyes, so I didn’t have to meet his.
“You can’t do what again to me? Let me fall for you?” He exhaled sharply, keeping me close. “I fell for you forever ago and there’s nothing you’ve done since that moment that has changed that. There’s nothing you could do to change that. When a person falls, they don’t just get up, dust themselves off, and keep going. If they fell right, if they fell good and hard the first time, there’s no getting up from that fall because they landed right where they were supposed to be.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“What are you holding out for? A girl who loves you for you?” I fired back, wiping the shock from my face.
“God, no. Nothing as far-fetched as that.” His head shook. “I’m waiting for a girl who wants me for my body. You know, something deep and genuine like that.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“Is that why you fell in love with her? Because you were like a prince who rode in to save her?” …
“No.” Grant shook his head slowly. “I fell in love with her because she saved me.”
…”Who did she save you from?”
Grant’s head turned toward me. The storm in his eyes calmed instantly. “From myself.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“You are half my soul … The best part of it.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“You’re the best man in the whole world.”
“Nah.” He shook his head, grinning. “I’m still a piece of shit. Just a piece of shit who loves the shit out of you.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“I’d rather have one day with you than an eternity with anyone else.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“Grant and I were meant to be together … Trying to deny that was like trying to deny a person’s thirst for water. It was in my very makeup - he was in my very makeup. I’d love Grant until my last breath, and I knew he’d love me until his last.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“You changed me forever the moment you said those three words to me, and it’s because of those words I’m the man I am today, standing in front of you. I’m who I am because you loved me.”
His body was growing tenser with each word, his eyes spilling over with emotion. I didn’t think he blinked once.
“So don’t try to tell me you’re not going to hurt me again by letting me get close to you or fall in love with you again. Because I’ve been close to you for the past fourteen years of my life, even when I never saw your face for half of those years. I’ve been in love with you those same fourteen years, and I will die still being in love with you, Ryan Hale.” … “So don’t treat me like my love’s some kind of light switch I can switch on or off depending on my mood. Because my love’s like the goddamned sun. it never goes out.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“You’re the only woman for me. I’ve known that my whole life. And I’m not the kind of guy who’s content to pretend with another. It was you or no one. You’re the only woman I’ve been with. I’m the only man you have.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“You’re the only woman I’ve ever been with. My first. My last.” He kissed the canyon at the base of my neck. “My only.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“The only way to undo it would be for me to find some way to travel back in time to the moment you first looked me in the eye and told me you loved me. The first time anyone had told me they loved me. The first time someone showed me they loved me. Fuck, Ryan, you were the first person who ever told me they loved a piece of shit like me. Do you know what that does to a person? It changes them. It becomes a part of them. It starts to define who they are and the choices they make. You changed me forever the moment you said those three words to me, and it’s because of those words I’m the man I am today, standing in front of you. I’m who I am because you loved me. So don’t try to tell me you’re not going to hurt me again by letting me get close to you or fall in love with you again. Because I’ve been close to you for the past fourteen years of my life, even when I never saw your face for half of those years. I’ve been in love with you those same fourteen years, and I will die still being in love with you, Ryan Hale. So don’t treat me like my love’s some kind of light switch I can switch on or off depending on my mood. Because my love’s like the goddamned sun. It never goes out.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“Because how do you go and fall in love with someone new when you left your heart with someone else?”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down

“I fell for you forever ago and there’s nothing you’ve done since that moment that has changed that. There’s nothing you could do to change that. When a person falls, they don’t just get up, dust themselves off, and keep going. If they fell right, if they fell good and hard the first time, there’s no getting up from that fall because they landed right where they were supposed to.”
― Nicole Williams, Touching Down