Follow Me Back Quotes

“That’s the way I felt. Every moment of every day. This constant desire for a man who stole my breath and filled up all the missing pieces in my life. The one who stood by me. My support. My foundation. Because times weren’t always easy, and the fear in our lives could never be fully erased. But he was there to hold me up through it.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Right, Mommy? That’s what brave is, being scared and doing what’s right anyway because you love someone so, so much?”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Fear never negates hope. It just means we want something badly enough that we’re terrified we might not get to keep it.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“no matter what you see or what you deal with . . . don’t lose you. Don’t let it break you. And don’t ever, ever give up on hope. Because it’s always there, no matter how dismal things might seem.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Don’t worry. My heart is always hung on hope.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“He looked like discord. Chaos with an easy, arrogant smile. A perfect, controlled disorder. I shook my head to break myself from the stupor. What he looked like was a damned broken heart.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“What are we doing, Kale?”
His fingertips fluttered across my cheek. “I think we’re needing each other.” He blinked. “I had no idea I needed anyone or anything until I met you.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“My insides fluttered when he began to stalk toward me.
Potent.
Powerful.
Persuasive.
That was what the man looked like. Persuasion and dominance and sex.
Most of all, right then, he looked like he was mine.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“I don’t know how to stop thinking about you … But as hard as I try to stop it, colliding with you feels unavoidable.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“If I sleep with you, there won’t be any going back for me, Kale Bryant. Don’t make me fall in love with you. I don’t think either of us are ready for that.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Go out with me.” His gravelly voice echoed through the line … “Go out with me, Hope. Just dinner. Because I can’t fucking stop thinking about you. Couldn’t after I saw you the first time at Olive’s on Friday night. It only got worse after I saw you here Monday morning. I don’t know what it is about you…but there’s something that makes me want to figure it out.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“I only allowed myself it in the darkest hours of the night. When I was alone, and I was free to let the loss I was dealing with consume me. When I allowed myself to miss him. To ache for him. My body pleading and my heart begging for him through the silence. I gave myself the time to feel it. The pain. The loneliness. Let the what-should-have-beens cry out from my spirit. Just for a little while. Then I got up the next morning with a staggering amount of thankfulness. Told myself, someday. Someday I’d find the man who was meant for me. The one who completed me.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Do I look like the kind of girl who follows a complete stranger out of a bar? You might be on the prowl, but I’m here to celebrate with my friend. Give her my time, because she pretty much gives me all of hers. And honestly, I’m kind of tired of the idea that a man can just snap his fingers and a woman will start peeling off her panties.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“I’m so sorry, Evan,” I whimpered, clutching him tighter. “I’m so sorry.” Sorry he had to see that. Go through it. Feel it. My little man. My savior. My protector.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“So sweet and wet and hot. Your pussy is perfection. Want to live in it. Fuck you day and night.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“His mouth swooping in to capture mine the same way he’d captured my heart. Swiftly. Madly. Wholly. Plundering—body, mind, and soul. I felt beautiful in his arms. Bold and sexy. My mama would call it risqué. She’d be right because, with Kale, I was ready to take every risk.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Eyes that intense, fathomless blue. It felt as if I were jumping into the coolest waters, floating in the deepest sea, soaring through the warmest sky.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“It’s overwhelming and wonderful and terrifying, and what happened between us last night? It was bigger—more powerful—than anything I could have imagined.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“At Evan’s door, I paused. Kale lay on the hard floor next to the bed, a pillow from the couch under his head and a tiny throw barely covering his torso, still in his shirt and jeans. His arm was slung up onto Evan’s bed, his palm resting across my son’s heart.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Sometimes dreams are only meant for a moment. They mean the world to us, and then sometimes something takes their place, and they’re not quite as important to us anymore.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Tempting me into chasing after that blinding, blistering hope. Wanting the striking, stark beauty of it. Hungry for something I’ve always wanted for the people around me, but never thinking I could keep any of it for myself.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“myself. Knowing if I reached out my hand, she’d be right there running along beside me. Or maybe it was the girl who was out front, hair flying all around her as she looked back at me from over her shoulder, smile so wide and welcoming.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“I told you I’d never forget that night. I meant it. But now . . . now I’m going to walk away and pretend it didn’t happen, and I’m going to trust you to take care of my son.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“What does that mean?” “It means I don’t get close to women, Hope, and the only thing I fucking want right now is to get closer to you.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Go for it. But if you hurt her? I’ll gladly cut off your dick.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Apparently, good things did come in small packages, and I was about two seconds from telling her that she was what I wanted.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“But fear is holding some of that back.” And I knew it then. He could see straight through me. “There are some things important enough they are worthy of that fear,” I told him, not sure why.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“Take care of yourself. Let yourself off the hook once in a while. You deserve to be happy.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“This girl’s shot me down at every turn and, each time, I got up for another round. Something feeling like maybe she needed me to fight for her.”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back

“My life’s complicated, Kale.”
“And I’m offering you a night away from it. Don’t you at least deserve that?”
― A.L. Jackson, Follow Me Back