My Way Back to You Quotes

“Would you believe me if I told you that I’ve spent these last few years regretting every decision I made before you left?” he asked into the darkness.
“Considering who you married, yes.”
“I could have married any random woman and I would still feel this way because she wasn’t you.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I don’t just love you, Sprite. I bleed for you. Only for you.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I never believed in marriage,” he said. “Ultimately, it’s just a stupid piece of paper, but I really, really want to sign that stupid piece of paper with your name beside mine. When our kids grow up, I want to be able to look at them and say, ‘You see that woman over there? She has some serious magic and somehow, I was the one who caught it all.’” His Adam’s apple bobbed. “What I’m trying to say is that I love you, Tessa Monte. I bleed for you. You’re the only woman in the world who can make me believe that love exists. The only woman in the world I’d ever want tied to me for an eternity. The only woman I could ever envision raising my children. Please marry me.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I’m yours. I have always been yours. I will forever be yours.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I can’t take back the last four years of my life, but that doesn’t mean I can’t change the way things will be going forward,” he said. “I’m saying that I want to be in your life...”
“Rowan,” I felt the tears building in my eyes before I could stop them.
“I love you, Tessa Monte. I bleed for you.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I had never deserved this woman. Not when we were kids, not when we were teenagers, not four years ago, and certainly not now. I’d never done anything to deserve her attention or her love, yet, she gave it to me continuously without asking for anything in return.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I promise I’ll be the best husband I can. I promise to listen to you and help carry your burdens. I can’t promise that I’ll cook for you every night or rub your feet after a long day every night, but I promise that I’ll try. Above anything, I promise that I’ll always talk to you, always respect you, and always put you above everything, even my work, even myself.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“He bleeds, you know. Our little boy bleeds.” “I know he does,” he said brokenly. “And out of all the things I’m proud of, that one’s at the top of the list.” He cupped my face, leaned down, and kissed me softly. “I love you, Sprite. Don’t forget that.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I saw you when you were pregnant. I saw Cody Maverick rubbing your stomach like Miles was his.” My throat closed again. My face stung beneath the palm of my hand, and I continued to glare at her. “Do you know how it feels to know that all of these men have been in my son’s life? All this time?” “I’m sorry,” she whispered, blinking away tears. “Sorry?” I squeezed my eyes shut. “I hurt you when I sent you away. I hurt myself that day, too, trust me. But this, Tess?” I looked at her again. “This is the worst kind of pain I’ve ever felt.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“The only thing I cared about was Miles and how this would affect him if—huge if—I let Rowan into his life.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“How many tears could one person shed? How much heartbreak could one person endure?”
― Claire Contreras, Because I'm Yours

“So it goes,” Dean said, taking a swig of the glass bottle of Coke in his hand. “You get the chick, lose the chick, hope to God you can get the chick back again.” “Are you speaking from experience?” “Fuck no. I don’t have time to play those games,” he said. “I fuck. I leave. That’s it.” “Which is a game in and of itself.” “Yeah, but I’m a pro at that game.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I put on his movie of choice, which was Frozen. I’d heard a few Dads talk about it during galas and networkers. They hated it, but it was a pretty cool movie. I’d have to ask Tessa what her thoughts on it were. Miles fell asleep before the girl with the brown hair got to the trolls, which was a shame since that song was the best one I’d heard thus far. I picked up his little body and took him to his bed, mimicking everything I’d seen Tessa do the other night. I switched off the television in the living room and went to Tessa’s bedroom, turning the movie back on there instead, not because I liked it but because I couldn’t start watching a movie and not finish it.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“You better take care of that girl this time around.” “With my life,” I said, standing and facing Joan. “I mean that.” “And Miles.” “Especially Miles.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“You still have Camryn. We can move mountains all day, but as long as we have that cloud above us, we’ll never find enough light to grow.” “I’m trying to get rid of her, I swear it.” “Try harder.” “I will.” “Good.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I’m saying that I want to be in your life and Miles’s life, not just as a co-parent, but as more if you’ll have me.” “Rowan.” I felt the tears building in my eyes before I could stop them. “I love you, Tessa Monte. I bleed for you.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“He doesn’t even know him.” My gaze flashed to Freddie’s and I let him see every bit of anger and ferocity inside me. “This hasn’t ever been about keeping Miles away from Rowan. It has always been about keeping Miles away from Camryn. I don’t trust her not to do something bad to him. I won’t risk my son and there is nothing you or anyone else could possibly say to get me to change my mind.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“It isn’t stupid,” Celia said, walking back into the room. She crouched beside the bed next to me and held my gaze as she brought an ice pack to my cheeks. “Miles is your priority. I’m tired of people judging women who genuinely don’t need men in their lives.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“Don’t you dare accuse me of being jealous. You don’t have a clue what I’ve been through and given up in order to keep Miles safe.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I want my son.” Her bottom lip trembled. She bit it and glanced away. “I need time.” “Time? You’ve had nothing but time. I have time to make up for.” “I can’t just spring this on him.” Her bewildered gaze met mine. “You can’t just waltz up here and claim him as yours. Why do you think I didn’t show up at your doorstep?” “Because the thought of seeing another woman holding his hand blinded you from reality.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I had a son. A smart, adorable, son named Miles. And the woman I had dreamed of every night since the day I let her go had kept him from me.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“My heart hurt just thinking about it. What if Camryn gave him Benadryl to make him shut up and go to sleep? A cold shudder ran through me.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“The ache in my chest worsened. I knew she was right, but I wasn’t ready yet. Not yet.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“Every step I took felt like the decision was being made for me. I should tell him about Miles. He didn’t deserve that gift, but my little boy did, and despite any thought and grudge I may hold against Rowan, I knew he was a good man. A loving man. I blinked rapidly.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“Mommy!” “Hey, baby, I’m so sorry I’m late,” I said, crouching and wrapping my arms around him so I could inhale the scent of his jasmine baby wash. I thought about my meeting with Rowan and the way Sam was insisting I tell him everything. Without so much as a hint of warning, emotion surged inside me, and I started to weep against him. He was my baby, my everything. He’d been with me when I was pregnant and scared and when I didn’t know what the hell I was doing once he was born. I’d woken up every hour, on the hour, to feed him. I was the one who had lain awake with him on my chest when he got his first fever. Sure, I had help from my sister and grandmother, but he was my son. What was I supposed to do when Rowan demanded weekends with him? Just let him go?”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“I need you to know that I’m not going anywhere.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You

“You’ve always had me, Sprite,” he whispered. “Even from across the pond, despite all the lies and deception you’ll always have me.”
― Claire Contreras, My Way Back to You