After We Fall Quotes

“Second chances are not given to make things right, but are given to prove that we could be even better after we fall. Unknown”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“I’m not looking for my first love. I’m looking for my last.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“You don’t have to let go of your past—it will always be part of who you are. But you don’t have to let it shackle you, or prevent you from moving on.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“But love is strange. When you’re looking for it, it knows just where to hide. When you’re not, it jumps out and clobbers you on the head.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“I know I can’t be your first love, but—” “Shh.” He put a finger over my lips. “I’m not looking for my first love. I’m looking for my last.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“Never in my life had I simultaneously wanted to hug someone and hit him with a scone at the same time.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“Second chances are not given to make things right, but are given to prove that we could be even better after we fall.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“I felt like two halves of me were splitting apart—one wanted so badly to be granted that second chance at loving someone and allowing myself to be loved, while the other demanded I serve out my life sentence alone in the prison I’d built for myself.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“I’m not asking for a promise. I’m asking for a chance. That’s all. A chance.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“So you were looking for a bathroom in the woods?”
“Well, yes.” She swallowed. “Sort of. But then I heard a splash and saw you…” Her cheeks were practically purple now.
I played dumb. “Saw me what?”
“Saw you naked, OK?” she blurted, throwing her hands up. “I admit it—I saw you naked.”
I had no hang-ups about nudity, but I was damn serious about my privacy, and about people sneaking up on me. But her embarrassment was funny. The two times I’d seen her before, she’d been so polished and poised. It felt good to put her in her place a little. “So you climbed a tree for a better view, is that it?”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“I know I could love you.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“Careful, city girl. I’ll want to keep you.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“And I cried for what would never be, a chance that would never be taken.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“Don’t spend your life worried about what people think of you, Margot. That kind of fear is like a cage—it will trap you forever if you’re not careful.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“His t-shirt hugged the muscles of his arms so tight, I went dry in the mouth and wet in the panties.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“I kissed my fingertips, touched the top of the stone, and said goodbye.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“I’m not sure how to work the grill at the cottage.” “Why? Is it complicated?” “I don’t know. I asked the property manager how to turn it on but she started talking about charcoal and lighter fluid.” I shook my head. “That sounded dangerous to me.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“Three years I put up with your boring golf stories and your pants with the little whales on them and your tiny clueless dick!”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“Not with a fox.” “It did not happen here or there.” “It did not happen anywhere.” Lightning flashed, and he grabbed my arm and started to jog, dragging me alongside him. But he was laughing.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“And anyway, it never happened.” I bit my lip to keep from laughing. “Nope, it didn’t,” he said. “Not in a house.” “Not with a mouse.” “Not in a box.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“I don’t need promises,” she said quickly. “I don’t have conditions, don’t need to put a label on this, don’t have to know how it ends. I just like being with you.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“Jesus, she was trouble. A bad apple—smooth and shiny on the outside, spoiled rotten on the inside.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“You're going to take it.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“she said, leaning over to whisper in my ear. “You’ve got good hands, an amazing tongue, and a big dick. What more could a girl want?”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“Is it strange?” she asked.
I looked over at her. “Is what strange?”
“Being in bed with someone else.”
Returning my eyes to the ceiling, I put my hands behind my head. “Yeah. It is.”
She turned onto her side to face me, tucking her hands beneath her cheek. “I’m glad you didn’t lie and say it wasn’t.”
I focused on her again. “I won’t lie to you. I promise.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“I loved the gravity of him, the power he wielded, the punishing thrust of his hips. I loved the growl in his voice, the sweat on his skin, the roughness of his hands in my hair. I loved that he’d come here for me, that he wanted me in his life, that he was willing to make such drastic changes to have me.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“So what if he was handsome underneath that scruff and dirt? So what if he had a big, broken heart somewhere inside that massive chest? So what if he had a big dick and probably knew how to use it? He was an asshole. And he was a client. But that kiss…that kiss. Why did the best kiss I’d ever had have to be with him?”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“Good girl. Now listen to me. I want you to stop being so fucking polite. Use your hands. Get messy. Make noise. Forget about being queen of the prom and suck me off like the greedy little slut under the bleachers. Got it?”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“Opposites attracted, sure, but attraction wasn’t our problem. We had all kinds of that. Our problem was that the attraction was getting stronger. It was bringing us closer. It was making me feel things with my heart and not just with my body. But he wasn’t interested in my heart.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall

“She turned her attention toward the next customers, and I couldn’t resist catching her around the waist from behind. “Careful, city girl. I’ll want to keep you.” She laughed as I let her go. But the scary thing was, I was only half joking.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall