Close to Me Quotes

“You feel that?”

His heart is pounding rapidly, like he just ran across a football field at hyper speed. “Yes,” I say softly.

“That’s all for you. My heart only beats for you, Autumn.” He brings my hand to his mouth and presses a soft kiss upon my skin. “No one else. You own it. You own me.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“Troubled souls also just need someone to love them sometimes. Someone to believe in them when they already feel so defeated.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“Love should be earned. And once earned, it should be considered precious. A gift. You give it away too freely, and it becomes meaningless.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“You’re Playing with Matches And I Have a Paper Heart”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“Friends don’t make each other feel like this,” he says, his voice a gravelly whisper. The hairs on the back of my neck rise. “Feel like what?” “Like you could be my everything.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“Feel like what?” “Like you could be my everything.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“Friends don’t make each other feel like this,” he says, his voice a gravelly whisper.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“We were a perfect match, But sadly, matches burn.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“I think these two have circled around each other for years,” Fable says, her voice soft. “He’s just looking for someone to love him. To believe in him. You remember what that’s like, right?”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“Friends don’t make each other feel like this,” he says, his voice a gravelly whisper.

The hairs on the back of my neck rise. “Feel like what?”

“Like you could be my everything.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“You gonna give it back to me or not?” Ash yells.

I slowly open the door. “Give you back what?”

“My heart.” He shakes his head. “Wait. Never mind. You can keep it. I don’t want it.”

He is making absolutely no sense. “Why don’t you want it?”

“It hurts too damn much. All the time.” He rubs his chest, a slight grimace on his face. “This fucking sucks, Callahan.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“I just poured my heart out to you and that’s what you have to say to me?” He sounds incredulous.

“You don’t have a heart, remember?”

“Yeah, because you stole it.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“Don’t worry. I won’t burn you.”

Such a pretty lie that falls from his lips. “You already have.”

His smile falters and he brings the match up to his mouth, blowing out the flame. The interior of the truck goes dark, and it takes my eyes a few seconds to adjust to the dim light that’s shining from one of the parking lot’s lampposts. “You’ve burned me too.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me

“Yet here I am. Drawn to the darkness when I should be seeking the light.”
― Monica Murphy, Close to Me