Southern Sunrise Quotes

“You left me,” she says the three words that cut me. “You just left me.” She turns in my arms now. “You left me, and I had to learn how to breathe without my chest hurting. I had to learn how to go an hour without wanting to call you. I had to learn how to wake up and pretend I was okay. I had to learn how to live again.” She puts her head down and cries, and I pull her into my arms. “I can’t survive that again.”
“You don’t have to. You won’t ever have to.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“I belong to you, my heart belongs to you in this life, in our past life, and in our next life, it will always be you.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“Maybe we should be careful until I get on birth control.”
“Negative,” I say, shaking my head. “Damage is done. My boys are on the ground running.”
“Did you just talk about your sperm in military form?” she asks, laughing.
“I mean, I’m not going to toot my horn, but my boys are probably already trying to infiltrate.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“I was the one.” He points at his chest. “Not some man who shares your DNA. Me.” The hurt roars through him. “I’m your father. I don’t care what any DNA test says. I’m the one who’s fucking loved you unconditionally your whole life.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“I’m the same man you fell in love with,” I say. “I just have a few broken pieces.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“You are my reason,” I say. “You are the reason that I get up in the morning. You are the reason I fought to live. You. Are. My. Reason.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“Sunrise, I love you,” I whisper in her ear, and she stops shaking. “I have loved you my whole life. I will love you in this life, and I’m sure that I loved you in a past life, and I’ll find you in the next life. You are the reason I’m alive today.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“I’m not going anywhere,” I say. “I’m staying.”
“For how long?” she asks, and I look over at her.
“I told you I wanted it back, and I meant it. I want you back. I want my life back.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“This is my home,” I repeat. Neither of us says anything more and just sit with each other. It took me five years to get back here, and every single day is going to be one step in getting my life back.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“I loved you then, I’ll love you forever.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“Do me a favor and let me be. If you ever cared about me at all, just let me be.”
He walks to me now, and I don’t move, I can’t. “I’ll let you be,” he says the words. “But for the record, I loved you every single day that I was gone. I loved you every single second. In my darkness, you were my light … “In my pain, you were my strength, and when I looked into the face of evil and fought for my life, you were the reason I wanted to live.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“I had to find out who I was.”
“I hope that you found out who that man was because the Ethan I knew was pretty fucking spectacular.”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise

“You can fight it all you want, but you and me, Sunrise, it’s a forever kind of love,”
― Natasha Madison, Southern Sunrise