Release Quotes

“Sometimes you have to let go of the life you planned in order to live the one you’re given.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“There was never a day when I didn’t want you to be mine, Sparrow. I just loved you enough to hope you wouldn’t have to be.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“I swear. It’s me and you forever, Ramsey.”
“I swear too.”
His voice only became more urgent. “I can’t do this without you.”
“Do what?”
He lifted one shoulder in a half shrug. “Breathe.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“I’m yours. I’ve always been yours. Even when you didn’t want me to be.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“You’re mine, Ramsey. You can try to fight me. You can hate me. You can lie to yourself for the rest of your life … But wherever you are, however long you are there, you are always mine”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“I’d often wished we had a cool story about when our relationship transitioned from that of tolerating each other to discovering we were two halves of one soul. But the truth is Thea and I evolved much like the seasons: slow, steady, and unstoppable.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“Trouble and disgrace was all I’d ever be able to give you. And let me tell you, that is a hard fucking pill to swallow when you’re in love with a woman. But it’s the truth. You deserve better than me. I knew it then. I know it even more after today. You gotta let me go, Thea. You just have to.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“I don’t know what’s going to happen to us. It’s been almost thirteen years. You haven’t moved on. I can’t keep my hands off you and my heart is sick and fucking tired of trying. We have a lot of things to talk about, some of which are going to be an absolute dumpster fire. But I don’t know how to stop loving you, Thea. I’ve tried. And tried. But here we are. Fucked up and in love.”
My lip quivered. “Fucked up and in love. That’s the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“You don’t have to love me, Ramsey. But just so you know, I do love you. I always have and I always will. But right now, I really just want my best friend back.” She tapped my pec. “He’s in there. I know he is. And you are seriously underestimating me if you think your petty lies are going to stop me.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“There had never been a point in my life that I hadn’t been in love with Thea Hull. It was exactly why I let her go.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“Love changes a man – even when he’s not yet a man at all. We were friends, but Thea was still quiet, stoic, borderline rude a lot of the time. However, in that tree, suffering alone and also together, I fell in love with her like the stars falling from the sky.
Thea made me feel.
It didn’t take long before I was utterly addicted.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“I wasn’t with anyone else. I’ve never been with anyone else. I’ve never even wanted to be.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“I’d often wished we had a cool story about when our relationship transitioned from that of tolerating each other to discovering we were two halves of one soul.
But the truth is Thea and I evolved much like the seasons: slow, steady, and unstoppable.”
― Aly Martinez, Release

“And as sad as it might have been, part of me actually longed to go back to that cell. It was a horrible and soul-sucking place, but I knew how to navigate life on the inside.

Freedom was foreign territory.”
― Aly Martinez, Release