Legacy and Lovers Quotes

“I didn’t see it.” “Didn’t see what?” “How talking about the shitty things that happened could possibly make it better.” I waited. “But it’s not just the bad things,” he continued swirling the wine in his own glass. “It’s talking about the light in the darkness. The moments that make the pain something you want to feel—because it means they were there, that you loved and were loved.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“After everything the last three days, there was no way she didn’t know I was going to propose. I liked being her sure thing.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“This is my love song for you, Angel. Our song, to dance, make love, live, and share for the rest of our lives.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“All the anxiety and nervousness fled. This was my girl. The girl who promised she would always find me. She always had. “Baby Girl, the only thing I’ve ever wanted is you. Forever.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“I came up with a lot of ways to do this. A lot of different ways to say it. All these plans and ideas—but the truth is… there was only ever one way to do it. The way I did it the first time.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“The idea this guy had her so turned around irked me. I liked our Rachel feisty, dangerous, dark, and cutting. This guy made her cry, that just left me violent.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“I miss him so fucking much,” he admitted. “I hate even saying it aloud, but I miss him. I miss his stories. I miss talking to him. I hate thinking about him and hurting.” After a swallow of the wine, I reached over to take his hand. “I got to talk about him, think about him, just a little today. At the meeting, when you talked about what happened. I could feel him right there, hand on my shoulder and chuckling. Life, is what happens when you make plans. I want plans. I want life.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“Sometimes you have to let others help you so you’re not alone. We don’t have to figure it out immediately. We have time.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“Stupid moments, inconsequential ones that wouldn’t mean anything to anyone who wasn’t me. Those were the ones that would make me miss a step while I hurried to a lunch date or away from a class. A turn of phrase, or a voice from a stranger while standing in the store and you can’t see them. A momentary reflection of a mother and child doing something as innocuous as holding hands that threw me back. Those incidents were what made me crazy. They were also the ones Stanley called landmines. Hidden emotional ordinance that triggered a sharp rush of adrenaline in an effort to dodge the phantom bullets. But more often, they were laden with shrapnel and it only took one piece to pierce something vital. We couldn’t see the landmines, so the chances of realizing we were on a minefield were slim if at all, before we found one of those devices buried in some innocuous location.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“Thought it was time. Healing has to start somewhere”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“Wherever you are, that’s where I want to be.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“But your kisses are the keys I need right now. I chose me, but I also chose you. Choose me again. Choose me and we can make this work. Love… in the darkness chases away the loneliness and the pain. Let me be with you. Be with me.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“Having the drive to not give up in the face of hopelessness is far more powerful than only having hope when it’s offered.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“You’re Hank’s daughter. But you’re also one of my kids. Before you try to tell me I don’t have to do that, I know that I don’t have to. I knew from the moment Hank heard you were his that you would also be mine.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“Very green. Green like summer and sunshine and you playing with me in the swimming pool.” Because that was the safety he offered me. The warmth he encased me in. The kind of care he showered over me. At the same time, it was all the playfulness of those days splashing in the water that helped get us to where we were today.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“I just need you to know you’re important to me and that you matter. I want to be there for you. I want you to succeed, even if it means we have to schedule time—like this.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“Friends don’t dump, they vent and they ask for help. You don’t need to worry about the date when you need that.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“You can’t change the past. You can only learn and move forward.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“The basket sat there all stately and elegant, declaring she’d brought me some tender loving care and romance—while I’d basically gone for full body contact lust and love.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“I kind of wanted to pull a Coop and do an achievement unlocked.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“Being an adult kind of sucks.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“That answer has changed.” She lifted her shoulders. “We’ve both changed. We’ve both got—other things going on. But I need more. I don’t think I’m going to get it here.” “More how?” Her laugh held a hint of tears and I reached over to grip her hand. When she squeezed mine, I held on. “I don’t know, and sometimes I think that’s the scariest part of it all. I’ve been pretending for a long time, Frankie. Pretending I have it all together, that I know exactly what I want to do and how I’m going to do it.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“I just need a change. I need—to be somewhere else for a while.” My whole heart ached at that sentiment. “I love the idea of you getting what you want, but I hate the idea that you have to go.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“I was hoping you’d just think I woke up before you and now that I think about that—I get why that’s a terrible plan. I’d never leave a bed with you in it.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers

“Breathe. It was easier said than done sometimes, but it was an important reminder. Stop. Take a breath. It was okay to feel the grief and the pain, even the surprise that it had been so long.”
― Heather Long, Legacy and Lovers