My Life in Shambles Quotes

“Valerie,” I whisper to her. “Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me, and I’ll tell ye I love you more.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“I’m in love with her.
I know that with every damaged inch of my being.
I love her.
She is the pulse of my heart.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“What if is fear. Even if is faith. Choose the latter my boy.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“Nothing is fake. My feelings for you aren’t fake. They are very, terribly real. You are the pulse of my heart, darlin’, and my heart won’t beat without you.” I take in a deep breath, that soaring feeling intensifying as I gaze into her eyes. I smile. “I’m so in love with ye, it hurts me.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“You ran toward me. You threw yourself into my darkness and you showed me the stars that I never knew were there. You were never afraid of what was in me, you wanted to see it all, you wanted to be there for me in every way that you could.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“Deep down, I know I’m heading for a heartache so severe it might just destroy me once and for all.
And yet, despite the fear, I’m not going to push it away.
Because how lucky would I be to fall in love with this man?
I don’t think many people truly get to do that, even if it’s all a lie in the end.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“I’m thinking about fear and how I’m always so afraid and how I always play it safe and how I never stick my neck out.
How I care too much what others think.
I’m thinking that despite all of that, shit still fell apart.
Playing it safe gets you nowhere and being afraid won’t save you.
I’m thinking that I don’t even know who I really am.
But maybe it’s time I find out.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“Tell me you love me,” I whisper. “Tell me you love me, and I’ll tell you I love you more.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“It takes a moment to change someone.
Sometimes it just takes a kiss.
I know this before it happens.
And when he leans in and the space between us dissolves, and his lips, warm, soft and commanding, meet mine, I know that a simple kiss isn’t so simple at all and nothing will be simple after that.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep you happy, enough failure to keep you humble, enough success to keep you eager, enough friends to give you comfort, enough faith and courage in yourself to banish sadness, enough wealth to meet your needs,”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“Just say it. Just call me fat if that’s on your tongue because I’m okay with that. It’s just a word. It doesn’t mean anything bad unless you make it bad. The word fat doesn’t define anyone and it certainly doesn’t define me. It’s a word that’s not worth anything.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“the heart doesn’t listen to reason. It has a mind of its own and the last thing it will do before it feels something is consult with you on whether or not to feel it. It beats without you telling it to, from inside your mother’s womb, all the way till death. It beats and beats and goes on like a tireless machine and when it chooses who it loves, you don’t have a fucking chance. The heart decides what love is, no matter what the mind says.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“It’s like if you’re not strong all the time, you’re not a real woman or something.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“I’m not done with her yet. I don’t think I’ll ever be done with her.
Why can’t she stay here for good?
Why can’t this be real?”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“Life is brilliant. And then it’s awful. Sometimes trivial or boring or mundane. You just have to push through all that bad stuff until its brilliant again. Always hold out for brilliant.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“This is all me. This is my body and that’s all it is. I am worth more than this. This body does not dictate how much love I get or how much respect I’ll get or how smart I am or how kind I am or how far I’ll get in life. It doesn’t dictate who loves me and it doesn’t dictate who finds me attractive.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“Don’t say top of the mornin’ to ya, don’t say top of the mornin’ to ya. “Top of the mornin’ to ya,” I say.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“I’m both a young girl, naïve and inexperienced and shy as the very touch and proximity to him hurls me toward a sexual awakening, and at the same time I’m an old soul who has found her equal in another, whose body wants to know this stranger intimately, who isn’t scared at what’s transpiring, but is hungry instead.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“Even though there’s a wash of sadness that seems to pass over his dark eyes from time to time, whatever thing he was dealing with earlier seems to have been pushed aside. Maybe I’m distracting him from his problems as much as he seems to be distracting me from mine.
In fact, the last thing on my mind right now is my hot mess of a life. All I can think about is him.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles