With You Forever Quotes

“Reading a book is just like opening your heart to someone. You won't know if you'll connect until you try.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“I gave him a romance novel because they’re a safe place to step deeper into our emotions, the happy ones and the hard ones. To recognize and process complex, sometimes difficult feelings within ourselves that the world tells men, in all its gendered, toxic bullshit, we have no obligation to face and feel, when we really do. As humans, we owe it to ourselves to know our hearts.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“Relationships are so…illogical, and their subjectivity is where I’ve been hurt. Those gray, messy spaces have taught me you can be loved and yet left, wanted yet regretted. So, I’ve avoided them. Because I haven’t wanted to get hurt again.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“Because I want us. I want you here, with me. Yesterday. A week ago. Forever.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“And that’s the best kind of friendship, isn’t it? Friendship that lets laughter and tears hold hands, where grief and gratitude can be friends, not enemies.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“Reading about people who look and live and speak so differently from us, yet struggle like we do with their inner demons and outside forces, fight for love in their friendships and families and the people they’ve fallen for, reminds us that not only romantic love, but familial and platonic and sacrificial love is universal, and romance is timeless, that there’s a love story for anyone out there who wants one.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“It’s not different. It’s being human. This is existence. This is friendship. We love each other. We take turns holding each other up.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“But just because it’s not funny doesn’t mean you can’t laugh. Sometimes laughter is all you have.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“Picasso said ‘Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“Because Axel has made me feel like that most vulnerable part of my life, the most embarrassing aspects of my illness, won’t change how he sees me. Not like my parents who need me to be better than I am, or the friends who I’ve projected that onto. He’s made that tired, worn-out part of me sit down and put her feet up and feel that it’s okay not to be okay.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“Axel opens the book, not where it’s dog-eared halfway through, but at the beginning, before he pauses and feeds me another pretzel. “Now, prepare yourself. I have a stunning English accent.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“Tears prick my eyes. It’s just a little kindness, but it’s toward such a tender part of my life, it feels like the hardest hug and the biggest smile and the sweetest kiss. It feels good to be accepted, to be not only told but shown that I’m safe to be not just smiley Rooney or happy Rooney, but all-of-me Rooney. Even the one who’s really fucking sick sometimes.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“The deeper you love, the deeper the risk of disappointment, and hurt, and loss. The more you care, the more pain you might face. And yet, I hope you won’t always let that stop you,” I tell him. “Fear of failure, fear of not living up to these standards you hold yourself to, which sound pretty damn high. Because…well, have you ever considered that the depth of feeling for the subject is the reason you’re the very best person to paint it?”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“Maybe love isn’t complicated, then. Maybe love is simple. Maybe it’s people who make it complicated. Maybe I can just be—here, now, touching her, lost to this moment and every moment I get with her.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“She has icing on her nose, and I wipe it off. "You can do anything you want, Sky."

"I know," she says happily.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“Parker shrugs. “Of course I’d like to pay it forward, do a little matchmaking with you two, since I owe you, but I won’t.” “No you won’t. Because being matchmade with my wife is entirely inappropriate.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“You watch your mouth. Harry Styles is a gift to humanity.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“The dog is named in honor of my other husband, the one and only Harry Styles, of course. Because like the icon, that pup makes me smile and moves to his own rhythm.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“But I’m just a kid. What do I know?”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“I’ve learned marriage is what you make it. Some days it’s felt like there was nothing between us, and others, like there was everything. Some moments I’d stare at that ring and think how odd it was to be legally bound to you, to have pledged my life to you, to have vowed to cherish and believe and honor you, and yet how easily I could break those vows.”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever