Asher Quotes

“As long as she’s breathing, I’m not letting her go or giving her up.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“Asher, honey, I think you need to forget the past for a while. Focus on what you have now. If you keep looking behind you, you’re not going to see what—or who—is in front of you.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“My love for you has never changed. Not for a fucking second.” I refocus my gaze back on her big, green eyes. “I never stopped kissing you, cuddling you, and touching you. I never, ever, stopped wanting you.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I don’t want to be alone anymore. I miss you—your love and your touch. And I hate missing you when you’re Right. Fucking. Here. It’s destroying me.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I’m the lucky one,” she says. “I’m married to the most loving, romantic, devoted, beautiful man in the world, who waited eight years for me to wake up. Without any idea if I ever would. Then he spent another year and a half getting me to fall in love with him when I had no clue who I even was.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“Thank you, teen Ember, for picking a man who doesn’t run away. “I know it sounds weird, but it’s like the more I start to like you, the more jealous I feel, even though it’s totally irrational.” His mouth curves into the sexy grin that always makes my heart unexpectedly jump. “You like me?” Warmth floods to my cheeks, and I look down at our hands with embarrassment before peeking back up at him. “I’m starting to. A lot more than I was expecting to.” He leans closer and rests his forehead against mine. We close our eyes and breathe softly together, and I finally feel grounded. I open my eyes to find him staring back. “I like you too.” His deep voice resonates through every cell of my body. “This you. This beautiful, shy girl right here. No one else. Ever.” I smile. “How long does ever last?” His eyes fall closed, and he inhales a deep breath. “For eternity.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“You fallin’ in love with me again, baby?” he teases, leaning down for a kiss.
“Always,” I whisper.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“Just hold me for a little while.”
I hug her tighter. “I’ll hold you forever.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I love you.” She sucks in a deep breath. “But I need you to love me. The woman standing in front of you. The woman your wife has grown into. I don’t know how else we can move forward. I can’t live with her ghost between us.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I desperately need him to see me when he looks at me, touches me, and says he loves me.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I don’t know how to let go of the woman she used to be, and I’m not sure I want to. The crazy truth is, I’m in love with them both, and I’m slowly losing my mind trying to make sense of it.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“He doesn’t see me.
He hasn’t really seen me since I woke up. When he looks at me, all he sees are ghosts.
I don’t want to be the living dead anymore.
I want to live, love, and be loved…and I want it all with him.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I’m tired of trying to be Ember. And before you say it,” I hold up my hand, because his mouth is already open, “I know I’m Ember. But I don’t feel like that person. I don’t know that person. I might not ever be the Ember you remember. It’s been months, and yes…I’ve had memories here and there. Maybe this is it. I might just get bits and pieces of my past here and there for the rest of my life. But I think I want to stop trying to remember and just move forward with a new life. I don’t want to be Ember who has amnesia or Ember who used to do this or that. I just want a clean slate without the ghost of Ember following me around.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I want my life back too. I want you to have your life back. I also want Kenzi to have her mother. I don’t like feeling so lost. I don’t like living with a stranger. It hurts feeling like I’m some kind of intruder who took your wife away. I hate that I feel like I’m trying to be someone else. I’m trying to figure out who I am and where I belong. When you kiss me, I want to know you’re kissing me for me now, not for the past me. I’m lonely too, Asher. At least you have your memories to keep you company. I have nothing.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I want my life back. I want you to have your life back. I want you to look at me like you remember me. I want you to love me. I want you back in our bed. I want to be able to kiss the hell out of you and rip your clothes off without feeling like I’m cheating on my wife. I want my kid to have her mother. I want you to stop talking about yourself like you’re not you. I want to stop hating myself for letting you slip off that cliff. I want to stop hating myself for feeling all the things I just said, because none of it is your fault.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I woke up to a man who’s physically married to me but mentally married to someone else, and I don’t feel married to anyone at all.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“Just do whatever you want. Say what you want, let yourself feel what you want. That’s all that matters—that you find you. But promise me you won’t avoid me anymore. How you gonna fall in love with me all over again if you stay away from me?”
“Is that what you want?”
“For you to fall in love with me? Hell yeah. That’s all I fuckin’ want.”
Her shy, nervous laughter floats through the phone. “You don’t hold back, do you?”
“Nope.”
“But…you’d have to fall in love with me too. Not the me I used to be…because she might be gone. The me I am now and the me I might be someday.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I’m no one.” Her voice is low and haunting. “I’m not a wife or a sister or a mother or a singer. I’m a mindless mannequin who looks like someone else.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“It’s okay to be confused and scared. But ya know what? Everything is going to get better soon. I’m going to take care of you just like I always have.”
“No.”
I flash her a grin, hoping it’ll win her over like it used to.
“Trust me, you really do like me. I know you don’t know that right now, but you’re crazy about me.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“She’s my wife. We’re going through this together, because that’s what marriage is. She’s not dead … I love her. We made vows. That’s it.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I’ll wait for you,” I whisper to the dark room. “I love you.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I love you twice – now and forever.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“Wow, Valentine,” she says breathlessly. “Do not take that tongue ring out.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“What if I find out Ember was having a torrid affair with the gardener or the pool boy? Or both? That happens a lot in your mom’s books.” Thanks, Mom… “Well, that’s not real life. It’s fantasy stuff in a book.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I don’t believe in right times. While you’re waiting for the right time, time just keeps ticking by, and what you want may never happen. I’d rather have something at the wrong time than never at all.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“Can Asher love me now if I’m not really me anymore?
What if I never get all my memories back? What if his feelings change if I’m nothing more than a stranger walking around in his wife’s body? Will he still want me in his life? The only thing holding me to this man and his family is a past I can’t remember.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“I’m not so sure I want Ember to come back. If she does, will I forget who I am now? Does the new me go away? Will Asher stop falling in love with the new me?
I don’t want her to take him away.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“Some things just feel impossible.”
“Nothing’s impossible if we believe in it and fight for it.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“You look at me like I’m a jack in a box, and you’re waiting for Ember to pop out.”
― Carian Cole, Asher

“Don’t do that, Em.” His voice is husky. “Don’t make me believe in us by myself.”
― Carian Cole, Asher