Someone Else's Ocean Quotes

“I don’t believe in miracles, but I’m falling for mine.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“When I was six-years-old I was gifted with a best friend who later turned into my soul mate.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Rule number one of friendship, don’t ever use something against someone that they tell you in confidence, especially a weakness.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Sometimes what’s meant to be isn’t written in the stars, instead it’s a journey on the path less travelled without a map of guidance, without certainty.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“I’ll be by your side through all of it. Every minute, good or hard. I want to be that man for you. I want to be there... I want our love story more than my selfish freedom. I want our life.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Kissing you feels like a free fall, touching you makes me ache, and being inside you is so damn addicting.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“watching you fall apart and put yourself back together was a gift. I’m so amazed by you.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“I love you.
I need you.
I want that beautiful dream back.
I can’t live without you.
I tried, and I hated it.
I’ll be there when you make mistakes, when you hurt, when you’re scared.
I’ll be there.
I’ll marry you.
I’ll want children with you.
We can live anywhere you want.
I’m lost without my love.
I need you back.
Tell me what to do.
If you don’t want words, tell me what you want. Please. Please. Please.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“I’d given her every part of me. She knew my every side, the small details, and I knew hers. We shared the things that made us significant and I’d allowed it, knowing how much it would hurt to lose it.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Don’t invite me into your life, Koti, or your heart, or your bed because I’m a selfish man right now and I’ll take you up on in without a second thought. If you move a single inch closer to me, I’m going to fuck you. And as much as we both want that, we both don’t need it. I will use you and it’s not because I don’t think you’re beautiful, or intelligent or worth more. It’s because right now, I’m incapable of being anything other than the man that uses you. And because I do think you are worth of better, I’m not going to let it happen.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Do whatever the hell it is you have to do to make yourself happy.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Things happen the way they are supposed to happen, nothing you can do.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Everyone is a glass house, it’s up to you to decide who to give the rocks to.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“what’s inside of you is a heart that is dying to live, and your head is too afraid to let you do it fully, the way you deserve. It’s the most tragic thing I’ve ever seen. You’re a prisoner of your own making.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“I mean, we are all just extras sipping coffee in the background of someone else’s life. But that could change at any second. If I wanted to, I could put my coffee down and become responsible for you. We are all responsible. We could all choose to take responsibility, couldn’t we? Human compassion. What the hell happened to that?”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“What a mess we are, crocky.” I clinked my bottleneck to his. “Rather be in the thick of the mess with you, puffer fish.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Love stories aren’t always perfect. They can wreak havoc on the heart and distort the soul. I’d gotten lost in love and found the reality at the end of it where I lived in the truth.
Not all love stories come with happy endings.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Aside from my little girl, life had never gifted me anything so beautiful. I knew every inch of her golden skin, had drowned in the icy-blue pools of her eyes, and basked in her warmth. I’d pulled every sweet sip from her lips. We’d become magnetic and inseparable and I let it happen in my selfish haze knowing it would rip us to shreds to lose it.
She was my golden shore after the shipwreck that was my life and she’d loved me with her whole heart, only to let me break it.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Dammit, Ian, this wasn’t supposed to happen.”
He nodded. “I know.”
“This isn’t good is it?”
“No, but you aren’t alone.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“He watched my reaction to his every touch. My chest rose and fell with heavy breaths. Everything felt heavy and I succumbed under his potent gaze. What lay beneath was hellfire and I couldn’t wait to tango with his demons.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“There's a name for human awareness and it’s called Sonder. The definition: the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground. It’s a pocket in time, where you may redefine life by the idea of the struggle of others.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“You have no idea what it’s like to feel like you’re drowning while life goes on around you, while people smile like they don’t have a care in the world, while you’re struggling to breathe! You have no idea!”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Ian, are you okay?” He didn’t hesitate a second. “No.” Tense moments passed as we stared at each other. “And what will you do with that answer, Koti?” “I’ll keep it in confidence. I’ll respect your need for privacy and I’ll ask you until you say you are, or you could be, or you might be someday.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“I see it all because I know you that well. I watched you and worshipped you for the best months of my life. I know what you need because I loved giving it to you.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“There had been boyfriends, a few of them memorable but never had I ever felt such an attraction to a man. I’d never in my life been inspired the way I was by Ian. His ability to make me feeling everything with a single look was unparalleled by any before him.
I was weeks away from thirty years old and had just found my first love.
And my soul mate.
But not my forever.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“He ticked my every box both intellectually and sexually. He was attentive and warm and had a huge capacity for love which he proudly displayed whenever he spoke to his beautiful little girl. He was the perfect man to steal my heart, and I had zero doubts once he was done with it, it would never be the same.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“I know this island and its magical healing powers. This has nothing to do with me. I don’t have the answers to anything. But here, this place is where everything wrong can be made right.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“I forgot how pretty men can be.” “Yes, yes they are, and then they open their mouths and it’s like playing the lottery.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Sometimes what’s meant to be isn’t written in the stars, instead, it’s a journey on the path less traveled without a map of guidance, without certainty.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean

“Love stories aren’t always perfect. They can wreak havoc on the heart and distort the soul. I’d gotten lost in love and found the reality at the end of it where I lived in the truth. Not all love stories come with happy endings.”
― Kate Stewart, Someone Else's Ocean