Sign in with Facebook
Only When It's Us Quotes
Only When It's Us
by
Chloe Liese57,181 ratings, 3.91 average rating, 7,985 reviews
Open Preview
Only When It's Us Quotes
Showing 1-29 of 29
“I’d rather be afraid with you than fearless with anyone else.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“I want to close my eyes and feel the memory of the moment only when it’s us became only us, forever.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Hate, enmity, rivalry are all passionate responses. My personal theory is that they are incomplete expressions of one core human emotion: love.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Think about it. We don’t bother with people we’re indifferent to. We provoke and prank and tease those who get under our skin and make us feel, people who incite our passion.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“No matter how it comes out, what matters to her isn’t how I say her name, only that it’s her name I’m calling.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“But, Sunshine,” I mutter to the empty room, “what if I need you?”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“I threw everything into loving my mom because where she went, I went. She was my mom, my dad, my best friend, my everything. Then, when she was sick, I spent years worried and stressed and heartbroken that I was going to lose the one person I had let myself love with all my”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“You’re quiet, Brawny.”
“I’m always quiet, Willa.”
“No, you’re not. I mean, sometimes you are but, generally, you talk to me plenty.”
Ryder stops on the trail, making me bump into him. Slowly, he turns and peers down at me. “I guess I do. But that’s different. That’s only when it’s us.”
― Only When It's Us
“I’m always quiet, Willa.”
“No, you’re not. I mean, sometimes you are but, generally, you talk to me plenty.”
Ryder stops on the trail, making me bump into him. Slowly, he turns and peers down at me. “I guess I do. But that’s different. That’s only when it’s us.”
― Only When It's Us
“Whatever it is, whatever it means, I don't want it to ever end. I never want to stop feeling this kind of love for you. I want us to love each other this deeply, this powerfully, always.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“I want Ryder who brought me whiskey and peanut butter cups and was the first man to ever slow down and hold me and help me feel safe enough to fall apart.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Life begets death begets life. The only thing we can do is honor the beauty and dependability of that cycle.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“I threw everything into loving my mom because where she went, I went. She was my mom, my dad, my best friend, my everything. Then, when she was sick, I spent years worried and stressed and heartbroken that I was going to lose the one person I had let myself love with all my heart.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“You have to live with arms wide open to new things. You have to risk trying and failing. You have to release the baggage from your past, so you have room to welcome your future.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Breathing is an obligation, and I resent its interference in the best kiss of my life.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“something rich and clean and uniquely Ryder.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Come on, obstinate offspring. Time to watch you squirm.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Willa’s a ball-busting, fire-breathing, hell-raising woman.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Willa pats my hand, before I hear, “Ryder?” My eyes fly open as I startle so badly, I slam my knee into the desk. Willa’s voice—it’s the first time I’ve fully heard it. My pulse trips and thunders through my body. A flush of heat rushes up my throat, then floods my cheeks. Her voice is liquid velvet, poured sunlight. It’s smooth and low and soft around the edges. It’s the clearest sound I’ve heard since I woke up in the hospital. It feels epically unjust. Why? Why did Willa have to sit on my right side, and why did she have to have a voice that falls in that tiny window of wavelengths that I can still pick up?”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“The oddest sensation settles beneath my ribs. My chest is tight, burning, tangled. I’m looking at Willa Sutter, the pain in my ass who goes from zero to ninety on the rage-o-meter, who smacks off my ball cap and scowls at me like that’s what she got a full ride for, not soccer.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“smashed into a slippery carpet beneath my feet. I miss the cold turning my nose pink and burning my lungs on long, snowy runs. I miss darkness, as weird as that might sound. I miss candles and hearth fires and hunkering down with a book once the sun set at dinnertime.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Wear a short dress; show off those killer soccer legs. Kiss a boy, screw him six ways to Sunday—using protection of course—” “Mother!” My cheeks turn bright red. “You know I don’t date.” “I didn’t tell you to date. I told you to get laid.” “Motherrrr,” I groan.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“inextricably knotted with my tempestuousness is the force of nature that is my drive.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Finally, if any of these are sensitive topics for you, I hope you feel comforted in knowing that hope abounds—that while this story doesn’t shy away from the terrifying risk of opening your heart, it revels in the powerful reward of love that embraces us at our most vulnerable and adores us, just as we are.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“As a neurodivergent person living with chronic conditions, I am passionate about writing feel-good romances affirming my belief that every one of us is worthy and capable of happily ever after, if that’s what our heart desires.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“underneath me”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Willa Rose Sutter, I will do everything humanly possible with every breath I have never to hurt you.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“You’re quiet, Brawny.”
“I’m always quiet, Willa.”
“No, you’re not. I mean, sometimes you are but, generally, you talk to me
plenty.”
Ryder stops on the trail, making me bump into him. Slowly, he turns and
peers down at me. “I guess I do. But that’s different. That’s only when it’s us.”
― Only When It's Us
“I’m always quiet, Willa.”
“No, you’re not. I mean, sometimes you are but, generally, you talk to me
plenty.”
Ryder stops on the trail, making me bump into him. Slowly, he turns and
peers down at me. “I guess I do. But that’s different. That’s only when it’s us.”
― Only When It's Us
“Wearing a flannel shirt is like wearing a socially accepted security blanket. Sue me. I like to be comfortable, and comforted.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
“Everything else, though, is going to shit. I’m a scattered friend, an absent daughter, a lackluster student. And if this professor would just cut me a damn break, I’d have a chance of at least scratching one of those failures off my list.”
― Only When It's Us
― Only When It's Us
