Ache Quotes

“the cost of happiness is high. Sometimes we hurt people, and often other people hurt us. It wasn’t ideal, but it was necessary, because we’d never be able to truly comprehend the weight and importance of our happiness if we didn’t work hard to get it.”
― Marley Valentine, Ache

“I’ll let you love me for a million lifetimes,” he says. “As long as I can love you for a million more.”
― Marley Valentine, Ache

“I love you,” I breathe out. “I have loved you on the days you told me I couldn’t. I have loved you on the days that I shouldn’t. And I will love you for all the days to come.”
― Marley Valentine, Ache

“Don’t confuse my lack of experience for lack of understanding. I know what I want. I know who I am. I know what matters, and I know what doesn’t. The only thing that you need to know is, being attracted to other men doesn’t change a single thing, because it’s only ever been you.”
― Marley Valentine, Ache

“Because I won’t survive having you and losing you,” he says in a shaky breath. “To wake up one day and have you realize it wasn’t what you thought it would be or that it was the chase that you actually enjoyed. That I was just an experiment or a momentary lapse in judgment.” He shakes his head, his Adam’s apple bobbing in his throat. “My heart can’t take that, Gael.”
― Marley Valentine, Ache

“Why do you do this? Why do you always try to talk me out of my feelings for you? Why don’t you fucking believe me?”
― Marley Valentine, Ache

“How do you tell your fiancée that she shares your heart with a man you can never have? That you love her, but even when you shouldn’t, and even when you’ve been pushed away, you always have, and always will love him.”
― Marley Valentine, Ache

“I love you,” I breathe out. “I have loved you on the days you told me I couldn’t. I have loved you on the days that I shouldn’t. And I will love you for all the days to come.” Epilogue Gael ONE YEAR LATER “Okay, but when Lucia said ‘Can we go to Disneyland every year, Uncle Jordan.”
― Marley Valentine, Ache

“learned to love you from afar, and I’m begging you please, please let me love you up close.”
― Marley Valentine, Ache