Hold Me Today Quotes

“Because I’ve been waiting my entire life to feel as though I’m finally where I belong. Tonight, for a slip of a moment, a snapshot in time, she belonged with me.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Dreams need time to prosper and grow—and I firmly believe that they unfold when you can personally handle them manifesting, never before.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Turns out that a hairdresser and a horticulturalist are not synonymous occupations, despite the fact that shears are used for both.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Her gaze never deviates from my face. “Because I’ve been waiting my entire life to feel as though I’m finally where I belong. You said that dreams are nothing more than temporary longings, one always leading into the next.” Delicate shoulders square off, like she’s going into battle instead of talking with me, a guy she’s known her entire life. “But I’ve been dreaming of the same thing since I was a kid. So, patience. A constant reminder that no matter how many steps I take in life, no matter where I go, I still only want one thing: to belong.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“I’m wearing a Hawaiian T-shirt the color of puke and a pair of too-tight board shorts that hug my crotch the same incessant way my grandmother anxiously squeezes her stress-relief balls.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Those plants look mutilated.” I look to the pots in question. Remorse stings my throat as I cringe. “I tried to keep them alive.” Nick’s throaty chuckle curls my toes in my shoes. “With what?” he deadpans without looking in my direction. “Bleach?”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“There’s no doubt in my mind, koukla,” says an oh-so-familiar voice from behind me, “I’m already yours.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Correction,” he drawls, voice thick with lust, “Saint Nick.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Without the night,” Nick says, voice pitched low, “there are no stars.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“I’m not a walking rulebook, Ermione, ready to take you to task—unless it’s to spank that gorgeous ass of yours. I love hard, but I promise you, I fuck even harder.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Let me ruin whatever clean-cut image of me you’re so determined to keep on that imaginary pedestal of yours.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Orleans, and loves bringing the city's cultural flair into her books. When Maria isn't frantically typing with coffee in hand, she”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Put all your love and hopes into the dream and nothing else can disappoint you. Not your parents or your peers who don’t believe in you. Not anyone.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“happen. Dreams need time to prosper and grow—and I firmly believe that they unfold when you can personally handle them manifesting, never before.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Sometimes what we want and what happens aren’t the same thing.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Someone once told me that dreams are temporary longings. You want one thing, and when you ultimately achieve it, your dream morphs into something new. Something bigger than anything else you’ve ever thought possible.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“If I’m a hot mess, I’ll own it. But the hot-mess express is about to embark on its grand finale voyage, if I have anything to say about it.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today

“Vini, vidi, vici, right? I came, I saw, I conquered.”
― Maria Luis, Hold Me Today