Unbreak My Heart Quotes

“Eric’s fingers toyed with the ring. “Just realizing that this is it, you and me. I’ve got you for real this time.” Blaine smiled gently. “You always have had me, Eric.” Eric chuckled. “Yeah, it just took me a while to realize it.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“I love you,” Blaine murmured, pulling a pillow under each of their heads. “Love you too,” Eric whispered, voice faint and heavy with sleep. And that was enough for Blaine.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“I say all the pretty words that are what I feel, say all the things about you I know are true, but at the end of the day, it’s you, always you. I love you, and I’m never going to stop. I didn’t before, and I’m not going to stop now.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“What do you want?” Eric asked, shivering. “You,” Blaine whispered. “It’s always been you, and it always will be.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“People had always asked how it was that Blaine could deal with Eric’s erratic moods and showy temper. The answer, one that Blaine never shared with anyone else, was the same now as it was then. The man could stomp and swear with the best of them, but his anger simply melted away the minute he was shown human warmth.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“I forgot how...Eric, he is,” Blake said, staring at the open door. Blaine chuckled as he heard Eric raising hell in the hallway. “That’s Eric.” “You sure about this?” Blake asked, raising a brow. Blaine closed his eyes, settling in as he heard Eric’s voice reach that special high pitch he reached when indignant. “As long as he is.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“Even after Eric had thrown everything they were back in his face, even when Eric had broken both their hearts, Blaine had never stopped believing. Eight years later, Blaine had still been trying to find Eric, to reach him finally. “You did it, Blaine,” Eric whispered hoarsely. “You found me.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“Shit, Eric didn’t know what the hell he and Blaine were. There was obviously something there, but he didn’t have a name for it. All he wanted was for Blaine to wake up”
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“Blaine had risked his life to save Eric and had done so without a second thought. He told himself it was what any partner would have done, especially one who had faced and conquered death numerous times while fighting someone else’s war. He also told himself that the fear he’d seen in Blaine’s face hadn’t been for himself but for Eric.”
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“He loved Eric, and he wasn’t going to leave him again, not like this. They were going to be okay. He just had to find the words, the ones that would unlock Eric’s heart again.”
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“For all his independence and refusal to bow to authority, Eric had always loved the silent but powerful possessiveness Blaine had over him when they were alone.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“you let me go, pushed me to go and never look back. Well, tough shit, Eric, I was always looking back, and no matter how much of an absolute prick you are to me, I’m always going to be looking back. It’s you, Eric, and it always has been. Probably always will be.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“Eight years should have been enough to rid himself of that, and before Blaine had shown up, Eric was convinced it had died. Sitting across from him at some quiet little bar was a very good sign that it had not died, only been slumbering.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“His eyes scanned the text from his brother and froze. He still looks at you like that, FYI.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“he could see right through all your bluster, your anger. Like he knew you were doing everything you could to make sure people didn’t see right through to who you were. Like he accepted everything you ever threw out at the world, loving you for what everyone saw and what only he could see.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“Songs and people who thought they were wise said that time healed all wounds, but Blaine knew better. Maybe it allowed scar tissue to form over the wound, but sometimes it just gave hurt time to fester.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“Blaine knew a different Eric, though, or at least had. The same bold and abrasive Eric had a genuine smile that was shy and even a little timid. The brutal, sometimes rough honesty hid a man who thought deeply about things and often hid a scared and vulnerable person.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“You knew me. And then you left. You left town, you left the state, you left the fucking country. You left…” he stopped himself before finishing with ‘me.’ “You,” Blaine finished instead.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“I do know you. Even if you refuse to admit it,” Blaine said softly.”
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“You haven’t known me for eight years. You don’t know a goddamn thing about me,” Eric told him as he hurried down the hallway.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“Where Eric would throw his problem in someone’s face and force them to deal with him, Blaine internalized and evaluated it.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“He wasn’t the same man he’d once known, but there were still flashes of the man he’d been best friends with and fallen in love with.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“Eric had always had a short fuse but couldn’t hold a grudge for long. Of course, it usually required some gentle prodding from Blaine before he could bring a smile to Eric’s face, grudgingly or otherwise.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“Blaine had graduated a year before Eric, and he’d never taken that ring off except to shower or wash the dishes. It was a piece of Blaine, one Eric could carry around. Yes, it would be out of sight, keeping them hidden, but it would be there.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“The twenty-year-old with the final traces of childhood was replaced by a man who was and wasn’t the Blaine he’d known. Time had added a few inches to Blaine’s former six feet, which irked the slightly below-average Eric. It had shaved off the remnants of a babyface, leaving a square jaw and prominent brow. He’d grown broader too, more muscular than ever, even at the height of his high school football career. Blaine looked good, really good. And Eric hated it.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“Blaine stared at Eric, just as stunned as Eric was. The past several years had been good to Eric. Time had removed the baby fat from his face, leaving him a strongly defined jaw and good cheekbones. His black hair was short enough to keep its naturally unruly state tamed. He hadn’t grown taller, but he had filled out for sure, far bulkier than the lithe nineteen-year-old he’d last seen.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“Blaine hated that some of the soldiers who returned weren’t considered sane. Those men and women were no less sane than Blaine, but much like the soldiers who came home without a limb, some bore deep wounds in their minds. They were sane, just hurting.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart

“He had been ten years old the first time he’d been forced to say goodbye. Six, if he counted the goldfish he lost. But ten was when he lost his parents.”
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“It was the leaving that stung. That’s what always hurt.”
― Romeo Alexander, Unbreak My Heart