Lead Me Home Quotes

“God. I wanted him. I wanted him so badly, but sometimes it was the things we wanted the most that would destroy us in the end.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“You are everything I ever wished I could have.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“I’m just here…this lost soul who finally found his home, begging her to open the door and let him in.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“You owned me from the first day that I met you.”
She hooked her arm around my head, her perfect tits pressed to my chest, her body arching, begging for mine. “I had no idea that day that you’d become the focus of my life. The one I longed for. My whole life, all it took was a glance from you, and I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“I’ve always fucking needed you.”
She jarred, shocked by my sudden movement, and blinked up at me with those eyes that twisted me in two.
I loosened my hold, and my words quieted. “But just because I need you doesn’t mean I get to keep you.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“Sunshine,” he murmured like praise. “You are light and life. My life. My everything. Let me be yours.”
Tears streaked free, and I lifted my chin, our mouths meeting as I whispered, “I’ve always been yours.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“He brushed his fingers down the side of my face. “Thing the only thing unfair right now is the way you’re looking at me.”
My tongue darted out to wet my lips. “And how am I looking at you?”
“Like I mean something.”
I kissed across the definition of his hip, burying my nose in his skin as I muttered the words, “You mean everything.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“Don’t want to hurt you, Nikki, and I’m pretty damned sure you don’t want me to hurt you, either.”
She blinked up at me. No reservations when she should be running for her life. “Then don’t.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“You are so much better than what I’ve got to offer. I’m messed up.”
“What if I want to be messed up with you?”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“No matter how much shit was piled on top of why I couldn’t have her, there was no way I could ever forget her touch. Her smile and her laugh and the way she made me feel like I was a damn king.
Her guardian and shield.
I doubted there’d ever be a time when I looked at her and didn’t think she was the best damned thing I’d ever seen.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“He always thought he was the one who needed to stand up and protect me, but it was me who ached to protect him. Shield him and hold him, wishing he’d find that solace in me.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“Bright, blinding light.
Motherfucking sunshine.
A taste of sweet, sweet lemonade.
That’s what Nikki was. Felt myself itching to lean forward and glean some of it. to swim in her calm and her belief.
They say sunshine chases away the dark. I swore, all it did was illuminate mine. Amplify why I couldn’t take her. Have her.
I was a bastard.
A sinner.
God knew what I was responsible for.
He also knew what I’d be willing to do – vengeance a greed I carried in the palm of my hands.
But that girl? She was a sin I’d never again commit.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“The problem was?
I just…loved him.
I did, and I had for too many years, and it hurt too much that he didn’t love me back.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“He groaned in misery and released the words between the manic scourge of his mouth. “I need you, Nikki. Need you in a way I haven’t needed anything in all my life. Take it away. Fuck…please take it away.”
If I could, I would.
It was all I’d ever wanted to do.
“Ollie.” His name was grief.
Love.
Regret.
“I need you, too. I’ve always needed you.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“You know, I always thought the two of you would end up together.” My head shook. “No. We have too much in common. Too much history to ever make that work.” “Isn’t that what makes a good relationship?” “Not when all that history is filled with pain.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“But sometimes it was hard to watch all the things you wanted most, feel them burn inside of you, and have the deep-lying fear that they would never become a reality.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“I think it’s the things that hurt the worst that mean the most, don’t you?” she mused, her hair flying around her face as if she’d stirred a new concept that’d been waiting to be revealed. “Good or bad. That’s what’s gonna shape us. Make us into who we are. Guide us on the path to what we want the most.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“I think it’s the things that hurt the worst that mean the most, don’t you? Good or bad. That’s what’s gonna shape us. Make us into who we are. Guide us on the path to what we want the most. I think we’ll know it when there’s no other direction we can go. And I’m not going to be afraid of walking it anymore.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home: Alternate Cover

“You are my home. You’ve been leading me there all along, calling me there, and I was too blind to see that was where I belonged. Too afraid to accept it. Too afraid to believe in it. Too afraid to trust in myself.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home

“I think that’s what missing someone means. They’re missing from you, not just from your life, but from your heart. And nothing, no matter how hard you try, really works or fully functions because you’re missing that piece.”
― A.L. Jackson, Lead Me Home