Unwanted Quotes

“Arlo and I were a match made in heaven on paper, we’d just pit stopped in hell first.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“I don’t want to do any of this—life—without you.”  “I have no plans of being anywhere but right here.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“I love you, Arlo. Every part of you. The things you love about yourself and especially the things you hate. I love them all.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“I love your broken.” He rubs his thumb over my lips and kisses me gently. “I love your wronged.” He kisses me again, this time a little firmer. “And I love your selfish.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“Frankie.” We both stop outside the entryway to the café when Jenika reaches for me. She grabs hold of my shoulder and squeezes. “You can only be someone’s reason to relapse if you were their reason to use.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“It didn’t matter if I took everything or nothing with me to Seattle. No place has ever or will ever feel like home without you.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“He stops when he reaches my ear and whispers, “Leaving you broke my heart.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“Now, with every part of me touching him, I was certain it didn’t matter who it was or what gender they identified as, I would never be able to see anyone but him.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“Sexuality isn’t something we’ve ever discussed, whether it be a conversation between Lennox and me, or the five of us talking specifics. It’s always been an unspoken rule: you are who you are and you love who you love; you never need to explain that.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“He may be a different man, and I know there’s more than just a black cloud hanging over us, but he’s still familiar. He’s still safe. He’s still my home.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“He just continues to stare at me, his hazel-colored eyes full of longing.  Full of yearning. Full of desire. For me. It hits me harder and cuts me deeper than any indifference and disappointment ever could. Because he’s looking at me the way he always has.  Like time hasn’t passed. Like nothing has changed. Like he needs me.  Like he loves me.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“may have learned to rise above rock bottom, but I was yet to rise above and forgive Frankie York. What was worse is, I was certain I hadn’t yet learned how to unlove him either.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“I have never stopped loving you … I don’t think there’s a world in which I ever will.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“You taught me how to love,” he exclaims. “Before you, I didn’t know what it was like to be loved, let alone to love someone in return. I love you, Frankie York. I always have and I always will.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“You broke more than my heart when you left … You broke me.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“My heart broke the day I broke his, and he needed to know that. If he listened to nothing else, he needed to know his pain was my pain.
His hurt was my hurt.
His heart was my heart.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“He’d always been my other half in every way.
And even after all this time, that connection was reignited the second I laid eyes on him. It didn’t matter that we’d done and said unforgiveable things. I knew down to the marrow of my bones that he was mine and I was his.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“He may be a different man, and I know there’s more than just a black cloud hanging over us, but he’s still familiar. He’s still safe.
He’s still my home.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“He’s looking at me the way he always has.
Like time hasn’t passed.
Like nothing has changed.
Like he needs me.
Like he loves me.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted