What Lovers Do Quotes

“I don’t think people take enough time to be present. To appreciate life without fast-forwarding to the future. We waste so much of now in preparation for tomorrow or the next day … or the next decade. Is it really a race? Can we not slow down before we die, or even before we retire?”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“We are all one event away from losing. Losing our minds. A job. A loved one. A marriage. A dream. We are all one event away from losing ourselves. Stability and sanity are not human qualities. They are not genetic traits. They are a state of mind.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“What am I apologizing for? Being nice? Too generous? I should be apologizing for having the spine of a gummy bear and letting yet another man step all over me and my generosity.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“Always the brightest star. Warm and comforting. I miss her when she’s not with me. And every day, she’s the first thought in my head, my sunrise.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“Shep drops his gaze from me to the customer at the counter and says, “Did you find everything you were looking for?”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“Someone who has a job he loves but isn’t married to it. Someone who feels like I bring out the best in him, but deep down he knows it’s not me. It’s him. He doesn’t need me, but he wants me. Someone who values our time away from each other because it only makes our time together that much better. I don’t want to be the air in his lungs. Just …” I try to find the right word. “Just his hidden sunshine on a cloudy day. You’re good with being felt, but not always seen,” Shep says.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“when I see you, I get really excited. And I can’t stop staring at you and waiting to see what you’ll say to me. Hoping it’s something that lets me know you’re excited to see me too.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“I sometimes miss the woman I married, but I never miss the woman I divorced.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“I will never get enough of Sophie Ryan. My sun. Always the brightest star. Warm and comforting. I miss her when she’s not with me. And every day, she’s the first thought in my head, my sunrise.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“Being with Shep feels like a chronic state of intoxication.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“Crawl under my skin, Soph…” he whispers before brushing his lips over mine. “It will never be enough.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“Shep World, a perfect slice of happiness. The greatest destination on Earth.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“This is messy. We are tangled in every way, and it’s going to be hard to untangle from this mess we’re creating without pieces of my heart ripping, without exposing all the parts I don’t want him to see.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“-Los amigos tienen que ser más.. los amigos tienen que se un lugar seguro para compartir tus miedos, tus sueños, tus penas y las cosas embarazosas que te hacen sentir menos. Los amigos tienen que ser capaces de ver todo lo feo y estar ahí de todos modos. Los amigos te dan la mano. Los amigos te abrazan cuando el mundo te sacude hasta la médula. Los amigos no ven los errores como defectos. Ven los errores como reflejos de todas las partes de si mismos como esperan que alguien ame de todos modos. Los amigos arreglan las cosas, no las rompen.
Los amigos no guardan rencor. Los amigos saben que no compiten con nadie más por tu amor y confianza. Los amigos no se ponen celosos. Eso es lo que hacen los amantes.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“-Todos estamos a un evento de perder. De perder la cabeza. Un trabajo. Un ser querido. Un sueño. Todos estamos a un evento de perdernos a nosotros mismos. La estabilidad y la cordura no son cualidades humanadas. No son rasgos genéticos. Son un estado mental.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“Si podemos cambiar infinitamente el curso de la vida de una persona para mejor, entonces eso es suficiente para sentirse realizado.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“If two people speak at the same time, nothing is heard. If two people listen at the same time, nothing is spoken. I listened, but she didn’t speak. So I spoke.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“To appreciate life without fast-forwarding to the future. We waste so much of now in preparation for tomorrow or the next day … or the next decade. Is it really a race? Can we not slow down before we die, or even before we retire?”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do

“Someone who has a job he loves but isn’t married to it. Someone who feels like I bring out the best in him, but deep down he knows it’s not me. It’s him. He doesn’t need me, but he wants me. Someone who values our time away from each other because it only makes our time together that much better. I don’t want to be the air in his lungs. Just …” I try to find the right word.”
― Jewel E. Ann, What Lovers Do