If Only You Quotes

“Because I believe we all deserve the chance to be seen for who we are in our present, not for who we’ve been in our past. Because I believe that while you can’t rewrite life’s previous chapters, you have every present moment to do something new, something better, and I hold on to hope that anyone who wants to can shape their life into a story they’re proud of.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Food isn’t just food, though. It’s comfort and memory. It’s family recipes and meals shared with friends. Food is a fulcrum of socializing and relationships, and now you don’t get to just show up to that. You have to think ahead and tell people your dietary needs and explain them again when they’re lunkheads about it or, worse, well-meaning, but very poor at understanding it. You’ll probably end up accidentally eating something that hurts you every once in a while, and going to a restaurant will sort of suck until you find places that have nice gluten-free options. It’s a big deal. It’s a disease that’s interrupted and fundamentally altered your lifestyle, impacted your relationships. It’s very valid to be upset about that.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“That’s why I love Shakespeare Club, why I read books, because those made-up worlds contain some of the most tender, scary, beautiful human truths, navigated in the safety of imagination, whose wisdom and hopes I take with me bravely into my own life.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Everyone deserves to have someone in their corner who believes the best in them even when they're at their worst.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“No one's unsavable”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“[...] it's life, and it's scary, trying to learn someone, to take care of them, to do right by them, when you're human and you're imperfect, with your own needs and fears and pitfalls, and you're bound to fall sometimes.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Feel some feelings. Get messy with me. Be my friend, Sebastian.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“I’m too selfish to ask you to stop missing me, Ziggy,” I tell her quietly. “So…please don’t stop. Please hang tight. Just hang in there for me. I promise, I’m trying. Okay?” She sighs, a soft smile lifting her mouth. “Kay.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Ziggy.” Sebastian leans in, voice lowered, soft, silver eyes holding mine. “You calling me that, it pissed me the fuck off at first, but that lasted like five minutes. Then I realized I loved that you called me Sebastian. You…” He shrugs. “It was like you scratched it out, his voice, those memories of how he used to say it, just wrote right over it with this pretty, loopy scrawl that swallowed up that shitty scribble beneath it.” His gaze searches mine. “Remember, I told you I was okay with you calling me that. Don’t worry.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“I need a fucking therapist,” he mutters against my skin. Straightening, he wipes his eyes with his palms. “And a new fucking family.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“You’ve given me shit when I deserved it, grace when I didn’t. You’ve seen parts of me that no one else ever has, and not only did you stick with me anyway, you saw possibility in me—you believed in me when you had no reason to.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“A rare, bone-deep satisfaction pours through me, better than the best high, more potent than the smoothest whiskey. I did that. I made her feel better. Fuck, could I get hooked on the rush it gives me.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“It’s easy to overlook someone who clearly wants to be overlooked. If you’d hoped for a different response, I’d suggest revising that attitude.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“A smile only for her.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“[...] how can I describe what it's like, sharing space and time, even just a facsimile of a friendship with someone so far above of me, who doesn't make me feel like shit for it?”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Only you could be both sweet and a total jerk in the same breath.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Your image does not need 'managing'. It needs a goddamn resurrection.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“For the hard hearts that bravely learn to soften, and the brave soft hearts that love them as they do.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“I’m so darn sick of this. No more babying me. Love me, but please see me as I am. A grown woman who can make her choices. And I. Choose. Him. Full stop. Okay?”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Ziggy pulls out of my grip and glares at Viggo. “I’m still gonna tickle you till you pee later.” He sighs bleakly. “I’m not gonna lie and say I look forward to it, but I accept my fate.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Oh, Jesus. My heart slams into my ribs. Ziggy, all dimples and freckles, smiling wide as she waves. She’s wearing the cutest goddamn fluffy black earmuffs I’ve ever seen. I lift my glove and wave back, trying to remember how breathing works.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“I wipe the flour from her face as best I can, enough that she can blink open her eyes. She peers up at me. “I said toss it, Sebastian, not yeet it at my face.” “I didn’t yeet it at your face!” She starts to laugh, the sound smoky and soft in her throat. “Clearly, you don’t know your own strength.” I bite my cheek, trying not to laugh, too, as I brush flour from her hair.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Sigrid,” he says, nudging my toe with his again. “You really catastrophized there, didn’t you?” I clear my throat, shifting my stretch to the other leg, refusing to look at him. “Maybe.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“You keep hopping out of cars, very determined not to listen to me, but I made myself heard earlier, and I’m going to make myself heard now: This is worth it to me.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“A needy sigh leaves me as he tips my head tenderly, then deepens our kiss. I kiss him back, desperate for his taste, to discover every corner of him, to make him fall apart the way he’s making me fall apart, only to realize it’s somehow managed to put us both back together.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“It’s…water on a desert-dry throat, air after diving far too deep—a gulp of grace that defies sense. And I can’t say no to it.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Then you need to find yourself some new people, Sebastian Gauthier. Everyone deserves to have someone in their corner who believes the best in them even when they’re at their worst.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“It’s not everywhere. I mean Betty’s Diner was a safe place to come. Then again, you saw Stevie walk into a table when I smiled at him. Stick this handsome, twenty-seven-year-old pansexual specimen of sensual glory in a yoga studio with a bunch of people in their prime, and what do you think’s going to happen?”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“Sebastian turns from where he’s been standing with his back to me, arms folded across his chest. The tiniest pull at the corner of his mouth, a flicker of light in those cool, gray eyes, is all the change in his expression. But it’s something. And it makes me feel good.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You

“I’m supposed to find something edgy that you can wear from this selection? It’s like asking Monet to paint with peanut butter.” I bite my lip so I won’t laugh. That was kind of funny.”
― Chloe Liese, If Only You