Could Have Been Us Quotes

“You make me lose my mind. I see you, want you, and know that there’s not a fucking universe that exists where I should have you. I push you away because, if I don’t, I’ll go crazy waiting for something I will never allow myself to have. You want to know why I do this? Because I have never wanted something so badly as I do you.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“Do you want me?”
“Like the fucking air I breathe.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“I have loved you for so long that I don’t remember a time when I didn’t.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“You deserve a man who will slay the dragons, Stella. Not the dragon himself.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“It’s all I’ve been doing the last twelve years—letting Stella go and hoping one day I’ll be good enough for her.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“What would our moment have been?” She leans her head against the door, a sad, wistful smile on her lips. “I don’t know. I guess maybe we had our moment, didn’t we? We loved each other one time. One night. That moment is all we’ll ever have. I’m tired and need to get some sleep. Good night, Jack.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“wanted them. I was too young to fight for them, but the moments, Jack, they’re what matter.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“Three hearts beating, two breaking with the knowledge of what is to come.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“I love you more than I have ever known another could.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“I’m going to give you a future,” I vow.
“With you.”
“For as long as you want me.”
“Forever.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“When I knock on the door, it’s not her beautiful face I see, but Oliver’s ugly mug.
“You here to shack up with my sister?” he asks with a smirk.
“I have a feeling we’ll be hanging out at my cabin more than anywhere else,” I note.
“So, you did want to get in her pants?”
“Ollie? What the hell?” Stella yells.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“There’s so much that I’m apologizing for – all the pain we endured, the years of secrets and loneliness. I should’ve been stronger. I should’ve gone to war for her so that we didn’t have to suffer because of the choices we made.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“I love her more than any man has loved another woman.
And yet, I can’t have her.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us

“I want so badly to pull her into my arms, to hold her close to me, kissing her until neither of us can fucking breathe.”
― Corinne Michaels, Could Have Been Us