Never Stay Gone Quotes

“It did something to a man when his hopes and dreams, and the life he’d carefully planned, collapsed. Were ripped away. It left him raw, and aching, and hollow in a place inside himself he could never reach.”
― Tal Bauer, Never Stay Gone

“Dakota stared at him with all the emotion of a man four hours into his DMV wait.”
― Tal Bauer, Never Stay Gone

“I love you.”
He had to drop his face to the steering wheel and blink fast. Goddamn, all his dreams were nothing compared to the reality of Shane saying those words to him. Three little words, words you heard all the time on TV and in movies and on the radio, but when they came from the lips of the one you loved, well…
It was like they’d never been said before at all.”
― Tal Bauer, Never Stay Gone

“Didn’t Shane know Dakota would do anything he asked? If Shane wanted him to quit smoking, he’d quit. If he wanted Dakota to stay, he’d stay. If he wanted Dakota to go, he’d go as far as he could get, drive until the tires came off his truck, then walk until his boots fell apart and his feet bled, and keep going until his heart finally gave out.”
― Tal Bauer, Never Stay Gone