Before I Ever Met You Quotes

“Dream girl,” he whispers. “Tell me I have your heart. I won’t let it go, not for any moment, not for any reason. Tell me I have your heart and I’ll keep it next to my own.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“Love just makes everything else in life easier to bear. It’s like having an army on your side. But love itself isn’t easy. Most people have to fight for it, they fight to keep it. Love is a war, and half the time you’re battling your own fucking self.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“I know, I think to myself, wishing she could read me. I know and it’s okay. I’ve got you. I want to protect her. I want her under my arm, under my wing. And I don’t ever want to let her go.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“The way Ty looks at her while she slips the jacked over his head, scrunched up and annoyed at first and then becoming something softer, more adoring…it’s a fucking kick to my heart.
I want this. I want them.
Why can’t this be my life.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“People get their hearts broken over and over and over again. But they keep on beating. They keep going. And each time they get stronger. Not a heart made of armor, not a hardened shell. They get stronger because it’s like any muscle. You keep using it and it will grow, and if shit gets rough it will bounce right back. The heart is nothing if not resilient.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“Everyone! Can I have your attention please,” Will calls out so that everyone is staring at him. Which was totally unnecessary because everyone already was staring at him. It’s hard not to notice when a six foot two linebacker of a man in an Armani suit stands up on a table in your office. Good thing we have very high ceilings. “This is your doing, Jackie-O,” my father whispers to me. “He was normal before he ever met you.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“Is it wrong that I want to order him some briefs just so I can get some work done?”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“You can choose fear. Or you can choose love.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“sometimes life throws us a curve ball. It doesn’t go the way we planned. All that matters is how we handle it and the person we become on the other side.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“No,” he says, stepping closer and giving my hand another squeeze. “That’s not reality. Love just makes everything else in life easier to bear. It’s like having an army on your side. But love itself isn’t easy. Most people have to fight for it, they fight to keep it. Love is a war, and half the time you’re battling your own fucking self.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“It’s okay to need me. I need you. I need you more than I can possibly tell you, Jackie. There’s no shame in it. It’s part of loving someone. You need their heart to help complete yours.”
“You love me?” I whisper, the emotions rising up my throat, choking me.
The room seems to pause with my breath.
“Of course I love you. I’ve only loved you. There was no before or in-between for me,” he says softly as he holds onto my hand. “All in. I’ve always been all in with you.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“right now everyone is on their phones. Everyone has that ‘me, me, me instant gratification’ shit going on and so when the going gets rough in a relationship, as it always does, they bail. They bail because they have a million other people on their phone, on those fucking apps, all waiting for a hook-up or a date. A million people around the corner, with their perfect filtered photos uploaded, their bios updated and edited so they all represent the perfect fake versions of themselves. So even when you’re on a date with one person, you can look at your phone and go to the next person, have your fun, then go to the next. It’s not fucking dating man, it’s shopping.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“It’s that right now everyone is on their phones. Everyone has that ‘me, me, me instant gratification’ shit going on and so when the going gets rough in a relationship, as it always does, they bail. They bail because they have a million other people on their phone, on those fucking apps, all waiting for a hook-up or a date. A million people around the corner, with their perfect filtered photos uploaded, their bios updated and edited so they all represent the perfect fake versions of themselves. So even when you’re on a date with one person, you can look at your phone and go to the next person, have your fun, then go to the next. It’s not fucking dating man, it’s shopping.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“That’s not all that hard,” I tell him. “Crack some eggs, fry up some bacon. Boom. Everyone’s fucking Jamie Oliver.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“life is short. And when you find what makes your heart beat, your soul sing, you have to hang on to it.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“You can’t be happy if you’re hangry all the time.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“There’s no use dwelling on the things you could have changed. Believe me. Too much reflection on all the could-haves and should-haves will only hold you in your past.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“Sometimes hope is like wearing someone else’s coat. You know it can shield and protect you, just as it did them, but it still doesn’t feel right. You’re just not used to it.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“Will holds his hand out for me. “Are you all in?” he asks. This man, this man, this man. What a stupid question. “I’m all in,” I tell him,”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“you’re the only one who fills me. My heart. Makes me whole. And I get that you want to throw it all away for a million reasons, but I only need you to stay for one: because you love me.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“His expression softens, his hand running through my hair, over my shoulder, down my arm. “Stop pretending I’m not what you need.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“With Jackie it’s totally different. She might be young but her soul speaks to mine. Her soul is bright yet weathered, having endured so much and come out of it still willing to shine. With her I can just be myself. I don’t have to pretend. I don’t have to guard myself. Maybe I should but if I did then I couldn’t feel half of what I’m feeling.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“I just…I want to do things for you. I want to take care of you … I could be good for you. Let me me good for you.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“I knew that I was falling in love.
I just didn’t think I’d already hit it.
But I have.
I’ve smashed into it, like falling from a building twenty-five stories up. They call it falling in love because eventually you hit the ground and this is where I am. On the pavement, blasted to smithereens.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“The man knows what he wants and he wants you. So let him have you.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“Maybe she acts like a child around you because you treat her like a child. And she’s not. She might be young in a lot of ways, but her soul has gone through more than most do in a lifetime.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“Will’s Smokey Old-Fashioned 1 1/2 ounces of smoked bourbon (or Makers Mark) Dash of bitters Luxardo cherries and orange slices A sugar cube An ounce of filtered water (or club soda) Muddle the fruit and stir well to dissolve the sugar Add ice cubes”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“His voice is stronger than I remembered, shoots some kind of electricity through me. It’s as deep as sin, smooth as scotch,”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“Well, maybe you can make me dinner sometime,” he says to me, his voice taking on this silken quality that feels like stepping into a warm bath. “Oh yeah?” I ask him, hoping my voice isn’t as shaky as I feel. “And what do I get in return?” “A good breakfast.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“You know what the problem is?” I tell him, gesturing to the bar, which is quite busy for a Thursday night. “It’s that right now everyone is on their phones. Everyone has that ‘me, me, me instant gratification’ shit going on and so when the going gets rough in a relationship, as it always does, they bail. They bail because they have a million other people on their phone, on those fucking apps, all waiting for a hook-up or a date. A million people around the corner, with their perfect filtered photos uploaded, their bios updated and edited so they all represent the perfect fake versions of themselves. So even when you’re on a date with one person, you can look at your phone and go to the next person, have your fun, then go to the next. It’s not fucking dating man, it’s shopping.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You