Back in Your Arms Quotes

“People can always move forward, but I think there’s a lot about who you became that was impacted by who you used to be.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“Being wanted and wanting someone back aren’t the same thing.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“Was it Tennyson who’d said it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? If so, that guy was an idiot as far as Quinn was concerned. The well of loneliness was vast, but so was the well of despair. At least in the former, no one else was drowning with her.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“You can’t make someone do something, but you can make your own choices to give yourself the best possible shot at happiness.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“Taking a chance isn’t a bad thing, even if it doesn’t turn out how we hope.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“Everything seems a lot more obvious when you’re on the outside of it.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“You let other people’s decisions dictate your life. The choice you’re making is to not make choices at all, if that makes sense.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“I think maybe a part of me always knew that if I came back, that’d be it. I wouldn’t be able to make myself leave you again.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“There were people that wanted to lift her up and lighten her load, and then there were people who wanted to extract value from her.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“But towns never felt the same if they were where you called home.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“She hated that she had to put her job first and couldn’t even let herself wander down the paths of what-ifs and maybes and spend some days in the blissful haze of second chances.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“Heartbreak could be a powerful motivator to do anything to avoid looking inward and dealing with her emotions.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“Who needed cell phones when you had the town gossip grapevine? She knew that mindset was her anxiety talking, the fear of being out and alone in the world.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“She was more than pretty. She was soft but strong. Patient yet demanding.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“She hated it when people shared how they’d react to something without having actually experienced it. A person could hope, but the reality of the situation was usually far different than it was in one’s imagination.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“I feel like, in a lot of ways, I’m getting to know a stranger, but there are also these pangs of familiarity that take me by surprise.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms