Thrive Quotes

“As long as we’re together…we thrive.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“I wanted you to choose me because you loved me. Because I loved you so damn much that I couldn’t deal with knowing you didn’t”
He shifted deeper against me, one of his hands moving from the wall to the back of my neck, his fingers sifting up into my hair. “I did love you. Jesus, Mira. I’ve always loved you. You’ve been back in my life three fucking days now. We’re goddamn strangers. I am not positive I’ll even like you two weeks from now. But I know with every fiber of my being that I love you, Mira York. Because it never died. Not for me.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“A world of hurt was rolling in on me in waves. And, because it was her, my heart was all but volunteering for me to drown.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“I choose us. Now and forever. I swear to you I’ll always, for the rest of my life, choose us.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“It’s not always going to be this easy, baby. No matter how much we say the past is in the past, there are going to be times when resentment claws its way through our flames. And it’s going to take both of us, together, working as a team to fight that back.” I tucked a stray hair behind her ear and allowed my gaze to roam her beautiful face. Fuck, this woman owned me. She always had. Always would. “I’m committing to do that with you Mira. I’m committing to fight harder than I’ve ever fought for anything in my life. Because we’re fucking worth it.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“I’m not letting you go, Mira. We’ll take some time, get to know each other again. but, if you think for one second that I’m letting you go again, you are the one who has lost your fucking mind.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“This woman. The one who I claimed was mine. The one who was as much a part of me as gravity and air. The one I’d been starving for most of my life.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“Baby, I withered for you. I burned at the stake day after day, knowing he didn’t love you. Knowing you’d chosen him. knowing there was not one goddamn thing I could do to make you change your mind. Hating you was the only way I survived.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“You were always mine.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“She’d been back not two days and that was all it had taken to realize that, for the last seventeen years, I hadn’t been living.
And I fucking hated her for that.
Because I loved her so goddamn much that it had only been two fucking days and I was already scrambling trying to figure out how I was ever going to let her go.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“There is no way I’m going home with you! Have you lost your mind?”
His face lit in understanding. “Ahhhh…okay. So this is the part where you have the snit fit.” He shifted on the bed, making a show of getting more comfortable. “Sorry. It’s been a while. I wasn’t prepared.” He crossed his thick arms over his chest and made a shooing motion with four fingers while holding his bicep. “Carry on. I didn’t mean to interrupt.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“Mira was the cray woman who could fight for hours, but with one touch, she’d curl into me like she’d finally come home.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“I felt it – that magical spark that turned into a wildfire and melded people together. Time wasn’t a factor. It didn’t deteriorate or fade. Nor was it a physical thing you could break or a feeling you could get over. I’d found it – whatever the fuck it was – with Mira York when I was twenty-three years old. It didn’t matter that our half-ass relationship had only lasted six months. It didn’t even matter that she’d never felt that spark for me. It was still fucking inside me, taunting and tormenting me, craving her in any and every possible way I could have her.
And I didn’t really want to ignore it at all.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive

“But, if you’ve never felt relief, you can’t recognize pain.”
― Aly Martinez, Thrive