The Difference Between Someday and Forever Quotes

“Maybe I’d been wrong all along. Maybe fate wasn’t something that brought people together. Maybe it was something that kept people together. And the rest was just paperwork.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“We’d survived the unimaginable. Fought a war against fate. Fallen in love not once, not twice, but three times. Had secrets tear us apart and truths reunite us. Triumphed over evil. And loved harder than any two people in the history of the universe. I hadn’t always been a believer. But Bowen and I were soul mates. Plain and simple. Our love should have died in the depths of our darkness, but the sun still existed even when it wasn’t shining.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“Fate. A predestined chain of events beyond a person’s control. Do you believe in it?”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“I lived for the arguments because it meant at least you were still fighting. When you’d get quiet and compliant, it was because you’d already planned another way out.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“I’d heard a saying once that every relationship needed a flower and a gardener. The flower was the person who needed nurturing and tending to thrive. On the other side, there was the gardener, someone who catered to the flower’s needs and adapted to its every requirement. There was absolutely no question that I was Bowen’s flower, and he had been the world’s best gardener for quite literally longer than I could fully remember.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“I’m broken too, Bowen. But maybe that’s what makes us so perfect. We’re like a kaleidoscope. When all the broken shapes are together, they form the most beautiful whole. Without you, I’m just the pieces.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“On autopilot, our bodies had a conversation only our hearts could hear.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“I want to marry you. I don’t care if you propose or I do. Old ring, new ring, no ring. It’s not the how, what, when, or where that matter. I know the who. The who will always be you.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“And that was our life together. Preparing for what we couldn’t control while still living each minute to the fullest.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“People change,” I told her. “For the better and the worse. We evolve and adjust. Learn and grow. It’s a never-ending process through the entirety of life. But the core of who we are is always the same. And you, my beautiful, funny, brilliant, clumsy, sexy woman, will always be Remi Grey.” I pressed the Remi Grey name tag on her chest again and then carefully secured it with the safety pin. “Don’t get so caught up in the search that you lose sight of the most amazing woman I’ve ever met.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“couldn’t hold it back anymore. A laugh that I swear caressed my soul breezed through my lips. I could pretend I didn’t love him. I could tell myself he didn’t own my heart. I could even convince myself I was some crazy version of myself having a nonchalant, no-strings-attached fling at a work conference. But the truth was every version of me was head over heels for every single version of him”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“I’d thought it was fate when I’d seen her sitting at the bar. But it was nothing more than an oasis. Someday, she’d come back to me. Someday, she would be ready. Someday, I would never have to let her go again. Today was not that day.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“one thing that remained the same: Every version of me—happy, sad, broken, shattered, lost, and later found on the courthouse steps—loved Bowen Michaels.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“Okay, then answer me this. If he’s such a great guy, why are you sitting down here, crying alone? And why the hell are you calling it a night so early?” Now that I could answer. “Because I don’t know who I am when I look in the mirror.” “Does it matter?” She tapped on the shiny bar top. “Right now. Does. It. Matter?”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“Whoever the woman in your reflection is or isn’t—from where I’m standing—seems to be in love with the guy.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“How about one who saves your life multiple times, held your hand on a journey through hell, believes that you are his soul mate, and loves you unconditionally?”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“Good looking and a good tipper. That, my friend, is a mythical feat when it comes to men.” This chick was preaching to the Bowen Michaels Tabernacle Choir.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“The only solace I could find was that she wasn’t hurting anymore. That had always been the goal, right? But fucking hell, I was getting tired of always being the sacrifice.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“I was dying as I turned away from her. With every step of distance I put between us, my bones crushed and my muscles seized in protest.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“Much like our entire lives together, wasting any opportunity felt like a fucking tragedy.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“Oh, God,” she croaked. “The safety pin. That’s why you carry it.” “It’s why I still carry it. It’s also why I believe in fate and how I know what we share will never disappear. In one way or another, in and out of your control, you keep running away, but I don’t even have to chase you for the world to bring you back to me. Over and over, we find each other.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“It’s what you were drinking when we first met,” I confessed, but the memory didn’t slash through me. It almost felt like the words freed something inside me.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“A two-minute walk from the front door up to her room wasn’t nearly enough. But then again, I feared a lifetime with Remi wouldn’t be enough, either.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“The bastard was all but a one-man conga line as he strutted away.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“The elevator finally dinged, and the door slid open like a heaven-sent escape route. Or, as Bowen filed in behind me, a hell-sent metal box of sexual purgatory.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“I didn’t have anything before you, Remi. The same way I don’t have anything after you, either.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“Do you two know each other?” “Something like that,” I replied. Bowen, however, had a slightly more descriptive explanation. He extended a hand toward the man. “Hi. I’m the love of her life. And you are?”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“Nothing was more unattractive than someone who was rude to people in the service industry.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“it felt like a sign. Some greater force was out there, bringing us together even when we couldn’t do it ourselves.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever

“Guy trouble.” “Anything you want to talk about? I happen to know a thing or two about guys.” She sighed. “I don’t think this one’s worth the conversation.” “Then he’s definitely not worth your tears.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Someday and Forever