Fixing Us Quotes

“I don’t deserve you or this life, angel. But I want to.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“You are so incredible, Gabe. I hope you know that.”
“I must be if in any universe I deserved to have even a slice of your heart,” he says, his chin still atop my head.
“All of it,” I admit. “You possess all of it.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“I’ve known you were it for me. Just because I selfishly couldn’t bring myself to commit fully does not mean I allowed any other woman to touch what only belongs to you.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“I can’t ask you to trust me. I’ve hurt you too much in the past. But know that in all my life there has only ever been one girl for me. One I give my heart to. Hell, one I give anything to. I don’t expect you to just believe me, but I will prove to you that I am in this. That we can make this work.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“I’m done giving up on us. I want to fight for what we can possibly have together.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“I was fooling myself if I thought I wasn’t going to try to work my way back into her heart and her life. She’s mine, and now all I need to do is prove I’m worthy enough of her trust again.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“What if I’ve been wrong for all these years? What if I can do this? What if I want this? I can’t put my wavering decisions on her right now. I need to decide for myself how deep I’m willing to go with her. Because once I decide to fully give her my heart again, I can never take it back.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“Even if you don’t want your ex-boyfriend back you still always want them to think of you as the sexy one who got away, not the girl nude and exposed with her legs in the air while a doctor probes her. Great, fucking great.
… I lie back and my head jerks to Gabe. “But you stay north of the equator.”
“Not a problem, Leigh.” He smiles at me. “But it ain’t nothing I haven’t seen before.”
“Well, it’s definitely something you’re never seeing again,” I snap back at him.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“We can do anything as long as we’re together.”
“It’s not that easy,” he says softly.
“It doesn’t have to be easy. We just have to want it bad enough.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“I can do this on my own. Don’t show up at my door with a hero complex thinking I need saving. Don’t sacrifice what you want in the process. I don’t want you there unless you are one hundred percent sure that’s where you want to be. I’ll understand. Just don’t come in and out of mine and this child’s life, killing us both a little each time we watch you walk away.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“If this is our last time together, then you’ll watch me. You’ll compare me to every man after. You’ll remember how no one will ever know your body like I do.”
“You’re an ass. You know that, right?”
“I’m aware.” I love getting her worked up. “But I’m an ass who can work your body like nobody else.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“Gabriel Starr, you are nothing but trouble for me.” She’s still tipsy, but her words are the truth. “Please let me move on. Fucking twelve years of us doing this to each other is enough, don’t you think?”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us

“She should have a worthy white knight, one who can show up when the needs him and whisk her away to the life she wants. But, as long as there’s no one else coming to her when she is in need, I’ll always be available. I have to be.”
― Miranda Elaine, Fixing Us