Always Only You Quotes

“Books help me feel a bit more connected to a world that often is hard to make sense of. Books are patient with me. They don’t laugh at me instead of with me. They don’t ask why I’m “always” frowning, or why I can’t sit still. Books welcome me—weirdness and all—and take me exactly as I am.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“I’m tough.
I know you are.
I can take care of myself.
You have,. You still do. You always will. I’ve just joined in, too. Now we take care of each other.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“And for the first time in too many years, I know that I'm loved for exactly who I am.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Because I know that having arthritis, being autistic, does not make me less whole or human. It doesn’t make me wrong or broken. It makes some things in my life more challenging in ways, yes, and maybe I don’t represent the “norm,” but I can be someone who surmounts obstacles without it meaning there’s something fundamentally lacking in my makeup.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“My therapist says, show people who you really are, and you get the absolute thrill of knowing they love you for you. That’s why the friends I do have aren’t many, but they know and love the real me.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“You reacted badly to being loved well.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“I want to confess that I’m wild about her. I want to ask if she’s even a little wild about me, too.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Wherever You Are, My Love Will Find You to”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Don’t worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will worry for itself,” my dad’s always told me.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Have you ever started out crying for one thing and found yourself crying for so much more by the time you really get going? That’s what happens to me sometimes. That’s what happens now.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Gentle kisses chase gentler words.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“You have my heart, Søren Bergman,” she whispers against my neck. “Please, please be careful with it.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Relationships aren’t perfect, Frankie. They’re living, breathing things. They have growing pains. They have highs and lows. They take trust and forgiveness. They don’t require perfection or flawlessness. They just require two people who want to love each other and keep learning the best way to do that.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“I hold her close and kiss her, then pull back enough so I can stare into those wide, deep eyes. “I love you. I always have.” Wind rushes through the trees, wraps around us, as I tuck her close, as I press a kiss to her lips and whisper, “It was always only you.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“And…she’s the first person who I ever felt right around. Like I’m not a walking contradiction who’ll never belong anywhere, but someone who actually makes a bit of sense. Like I don’t have to choose between these different parts of myself.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“And that’s when I became a problem, not a person.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“If you believe youre loveable, than you have to believe there's someone out there up for loving you”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“My little sister is on the spectrum. So, while everyone’s unique, and I’m no expert, I love someone who’s autistic. And I hope you know I’m a safe place for you to be you.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“I don’t handle stressful situations well. I get anxious. Overwrought. Histrionic. It’s very Victorian.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Don’t feel yourself falling deeper when you see him demonstrate that strength lies not in an assertion of power but in acts of service.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“That I deserve love for being exactly who I am,” I admit miserably. “That the person worthy of my love will love all of me.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.’” “The other one, Daddy,” Ziggy say quietly. He kisses her forehead. “‘The most common form of despair is not being who you are.’” Ziggy smiles. “That’s my favorite.” “And my favorite,” Dr. B says, as he shifts Ziggy on his lap, “is—” A new voice breaks in. I glance over my shoulder to see Ren smiling down at me, hands in his pockets. “‘To cheat oneself out of love,’” he says, “‘is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Frankie crying made me feel like my heart was being cut out of my chest.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Get fucked,” François tells him. “Do you know how long I’ve been waiting to play Thisbe?”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“The real Ren has no reason to be here, looking like sex on a cinnamon stick.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Archaic male demonstrations of protectiveness are not sexy. Archaic— Dammit, this is sexy, and my body knows it. I can’t deny it any more than I can deny my Harry Potter panties are now as wet as a rainy day at Hogwarts.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Ren has been nothing but a ray of sunshine since the moment I met him. And whereas I myself am a little storm cloud,”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“If I have baby fever, Lo’s having a baby febrile seizure.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“I’m tough.
I know you are.
I can take care of myself.
You have. You still do. You always will. I’ve just joined in, too. Now we take care of each other.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Archaic male demonstrations of protectiveness are not sexy. Archaic male demonstrations of protectiveness are not sexy. Archaic— Dammit, this is sexy, and my body knows it.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You