The Remaking of Corbin Wale Quotes

“He had sunk into his love for Corbin with the inevitability of gravity. At unexpected moments, he would see Corbin and be caught breathless at the insistence of his need. When Corbin reached for him, he felt that need like magnets finding their way close enough to snap together.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“The problem is that even if you don't touch, even if you keep things back ... the feelings are still there. Because love doesn't live in kisses and flowers and first dates. It lives in your mind, in your heart.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“I don't really believe there's one destined soul mate for each person," [Alex] went on. "But I do think that with numbers like those, it's likely that no matter what you believe or who you are, there's someone out there - probably a lot of someones - who could see you clearly. Who could understand you, and care about you. Who could love you.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“The remaking of Corbin Wale was a constant overturning, like the ocean tides.

The remaking of Alex Barrow had been far less tempestuous, It had been a deepening, an underscoring.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“He saw the monsters that love and longing could make, and they all had human faces.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“The problem is that even if you don’t touch, even if you keep things back, even if you don’t go out to dinner or to the movies, the feelings are still there. Because love doesn’t live in kisses and flowers and first dates. It lives in your mind, in your heart. The problem is that I already love you.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“His aunts had had a name for people like Alex. Kedge. The mooring that kept things from drifting off, kept them anchored to the here and now.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“Bake with love for those you love and they will taste the sweetness.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“It was the difference between strawberry jam and a perfect, sun-ripe strawberry. Other people he’d desired had been jam. He’d seen them, liked them, saw potential in them, thought of what he might do with them, how they’d combine. Corbin was a strawberry. If you had any sense at all, you took it as it was and you never questioned it. You didn’t add sugar and you didn’t add heat. You didn’t put it in a sandwich or use it in a cake. You didn’t do anything to it because it was already as absolutely, perfectly a strawberry as it would ever be. You recognized it, and were grateful for it. And, if you were lucky, you savored it.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“My grandmother always made challah for Shabbat and dropped it off at our house. She said braided bread was a symbol of love because it’s like arms interlocking.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“What’s cream of tartar.” “It’s an acid that’s used as a leavener. When it’s combined with baking soda, they produce carbon dioxide gas, which is the same thing that yeast in bread produces. It’ll make the cookies soft.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“Alex left one hand on Corbin's shoulder and laid the other on Gareth's arm, shaking his head. In that moment, Corbin saw so clearly who Alex was. The man whose touch could gentle. The man whose presence soothed. The man who was so full up with weighty presence he had ballast to spare.
His aunts had had a name for people like Alex. Kedge. The mooring that kept things from drifting off, kept them anchored to the here and now.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“His face and the set of his shoulders made Alex want to tramp through the woods as the leaves fell, run through fields to tumble him down on sun-warmed grass, press flowers to his lips to see which were softer.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“I’m not sure the world I’ve experienced is a world where curses are quite as . . . rule-based as what you’re describing.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“The problem is that I already love you.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“Beneath the hint of blueberries, Alex could taste the wild, winter flavor of Corbin himself, and he’d never tasted anything so intoxicating.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“I believe in everything.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“In this reality, they breathed together, chests nearly touching on their inhalations, lips slightly parted like they could taste the sweetness of each other’s air.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale