Beautifully Broken Spirit Quotes

“We might end up regretting this. It might be the wrong choice, whatever that means. But if we stop taking risks, we stop living. I don’t want that for you. And I sure as hell don’t want that for myself.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“Tucker Harris, I’ve loved you since before I knew what the word even meant … I’ve love you as a brother, as a friend, as my first crush, as my lifeline, as the person who sets my soul free … I’m never more free to be who I am than when I’m with you.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“She had always been there. For almost as long as I could remember, she’d always been a part of me.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“I knew deep down that things were changing. That hope that I could burn out this fire between us, so all that was left was easy affection and friendship was a distant memory.
I wanted more. I wanted everything.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“She didn’t owe me anything, we weren’t together, we were simply bed buddies. For the first time in my life, I hated that. I wanted more. I wanted the right to call her mine.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“You’re not alone, Jensen. Families can take any shape, and sometimes, the unique ones are the most beautiful.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“I kissed one temple, the other, and then his forehead. “There has never been a day I didn’t love you. And there never will be.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“It wasn’t always this kind of love. But I have loved you from the first moment I laid eyes on you. And now I’m going to tell you out loud, every day for the rest of my life. I love you, Jensen Evelyn Cole.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“I’ve always loved you.” He cleared his throat, wincing at the pain but pushed on. “I couldn’t tell you. I thought I’d only bring misery and pain into your life in the long run.” I shook my head. “No.” Tuck squeezed my hand. “But I told you in my own way. Every time I touched you three times. Every time I squeezed your hand three times. Every time I kissed each temple and your forehead. That’s what I was telling you. One touch for each word I couldn’t say.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“Tucker Harris, I’ve loved you since before I knew what the word even meant. That love has shifted and changed through the years. Because, what I didn’t realize, was that love is a living, breathing thing. I’ve loved you as a brother, as a friend, as my first crush, as my lifeline, as the person who sets my soul free. You call me Wilder, but it’s you who helps me be that way. I’m never more free to be who I am than when I’m with you.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“Just give me a minute.” I’d give him eternity. Standing there safe in his arms, there was nowhere else I’d rather be.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“I let the horses’ peaceful energy flow over me. Soaked up each precious moment as the family interacted, coaxing their young ones along, searching out grass to eat. This glimpse of life was the perfect remedy to the heartache of the lost mare.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“I took another deep breath. This was why I needed horses. Mine and the ones who still ran free. With them, I could just be. I couldn’t explain it exactly, but they eased my soul somehow.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“Willow, that’s what I’d named the mare with the haunted eyes. For the trees that were known to withstand the highest winds so well they would bend but never break.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“Everything around you became a potential threat when you couldn’t trust the way you interpreted the world around you.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“It all came down to trust. A five-letter word that was so incredibly fragile. With others, but even more so with yourself.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“I sucked in a breath as we rounded the corner. A dark bay horse stood shivering in the corner of her pen. The corner farthest away from any people and the other horses. An invisible fist squeezed my heart. “I’ll take her.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“There was something about this horse. I knew she needed me. Maybe we needed each other. That was the thing about horses, they tended to teach you way more than you would ever teach them.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“Being around Jensen was the most beautiful form of torture. And even though I knew I shouldn’t, I’d always sign up for more.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“Being scared just means you care about something. Nothing there to be ashamed of.” Our eyes locked. Held. Tuck dropped his hand and balled his fist. I bit my lip and nodded, my palm traveling to my belly. “I love this little person already.” “I know you do.” Tuck gripped my neck lightly, giving it a squeeze. “You’re not alone, Jensen. Families can take any shape, and sometimes, the unique ones are the most beautiful.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“Understand that this is more.” I cupped her face in my hands. “That this is everything.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“This is more.” My gaze tangled with his, so many unsaid things dancing between us. “You’ve always been more. It’s just taken me a third of my life to see it.”
A brief flare of panic shone in Tuck’s eyes, mixed with something that looked a lot like pain, but he seemed to rein it in. “I don’t know if I can be what you want me to be.”
I gripped his wrists on either side of my face. “You already are. All I’m asking is that we take this one day at a time and see where it leads.
“One day at a time.” Tuck pressed his mouth against mine. “I can do one day at a time.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“I think I’m in love with Tuck.” The words just tumbled out of me as if they had a mind of their own.
Grandma kept right on rocking. “Of course, you are.”
“Excuse me?”
“You and Tucker have loved each other since before you knew what that meant.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“Life is full of horrible things, Tuck. Are you going to protect me from all of them? Then I’ll barely be living. Newsflash, bucko, you have to experience the bad so you appreciate the good. I don’t want you to shield me. I want you to stand next to me.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“You’ve always had a wildness to you. It’s been missing for a while, but it’s coming back. And when I light that match, your eyes burn with it.”
Jensen’s cheeks heated. I brushed the hair out of her face, kissing each temple and then her forehead. “Don’t get embarrassed. It’s the hottest thing I’ve ever seen.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit

“I don’t know what the answer is. How to find the balance between being strong enough to stand on my own two feet and not shutting everyone out … I’m so tired of being a burden.”
― Catherine Cowles, Beautifully Broken Spirit