The One That Got Away Quotes

“I don’t even want to fix you. I want to ride your broken wings.”
― Karina Halle, The One That Got Away

“You’re a fucking angel,” he says to me, meeting my eyes with a carnal gaze ... “But I’m going to fuck you like the devil.”
― Karina Halle, The One That Got Away

“Tell me more of the truth.” She twists in her swing so she’s facing me, wrapping her ankle around mine to keep her in place. “Tell me why this, and everything between us, is so complicated when it’s the only thing that makes any sense.”
― Karina Halle, The One That Got Away

“We’re raw and messy and lost and found but what we’ve always been is real.
What we’ve always been is us.”
― Karina Halle, The One That Got Away

“I’ll have to let her do things on her own terms.
I have to hope she’ll fall in love with me.
But the one thing I think she knows too, is that what we are has changed. What was once a possibility is now the reality.
There is an us now.
There’s no turning back.”
― Karina Halle, The One That Got Away

“Give me your heart, Ruby. Give me your heart, because you already have mine.”
― Karina Halle, The One That Got Away

“We’re all a little lost on this planet, stumbling around on cascading years, trying to make sense of it all.”
She glances at me, her eyes glistening in such a way that it hurts my heart. “Then I don’t want to do it alone. I want to be lost and stumbling with you.”
― Karina Halle, The One That Got Away

“You’re Ruby Turner. And you have your own path through life, that’s all. Just because you have a different way of doing things, doesn’t mean you’re a hot mess. You’re just you.”
― Karina Halle, The One That Got Away

“I feel for him. Something. Everything.
In every way.
“I want you,” I manage to say against his lips. “I need you.”
He pauses, just enough to look me in the eyes. Fire flashes in them and I see myself in the flames, burning along with him.
“You have me. You always have.”
― Karina Halle, The One That Got Away