June First Quotes

“Just as we cannot force ourselves to love someone, we cannot force ourselves to unlove them, either. Fate can be foolish, and fate can be careless. But fate is always true.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“I’m hopelessly, irrevocably in love with you, June Bailey. The desperate, aching kind of love. The kind there’s no coming back from. The kind there’s no way out of. The kind that’s going to be the death of me one day. I fall more in love with June than I ever thought possible as we clutch each other in a moonlit graveyard on her eighteenth birthday, with my mother on my mind, and the scent of sweet desserts dancing in the air.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“There are worse things than loving the wrong person. And that's losing them.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“The quiet is where I overthink. The quiet is where I backslide. The quiet is where I second-guess everything.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“No relationship comes without a fight, but it has to be worth fighting for. It has to be worth all the sacrifices you'll inevitably have to make.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“Never underestimate a man willing to wait forever for the woman he loves.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“You're not responsible for the way others react to what you need to do to get better.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“You just need to be brave that first time, then all the other times come easy.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“You were unsure which pain is worse: the shock of what happened, or the ache for what never will.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“June always feels like a new beginning.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“We’ve grown codependent. We’re addicted to each other. And until I learn how to live without him, I’ll never be able to live with him in a healthy way.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“He turned the only girl I’ve ever wanted into the only girl I can never have.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“Do you want to know exactly what’s hiding in that light at the end of the tunnel? Well, I’ll tell you. That’s your legs working again after months of physical therapy. That’s the medication readjusting the chemicals in your brain after you took a razor to your wrist. That’s the bronze A.A. chip after a year of painful sobriety. That’s the warm tickle in your stomach when you find love again after a messy divorce.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“My fingers curl. A vicious noose. He does the same to me. We’re throttling and strangling and gagging. And then my mother’s face flashes to mind, her eyes bugged out, mouth open wide. The life snuffed out of her. The hideous purple tie coiled around her neck, sealing her fate. My hands release his neck, arms dropping to the floor with surrender. With submission. With the final threads of my humanity still intact. If he still wants to strangle me, so be it. I’d rather be dead than become my father.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“She was never supposed to be my sister!” I burst out”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“We’ll never lose it. I’ve been yours since the day I was born and I’ll be yours until the day I die. Distance doesn’t change destiny.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“I’ve seen the way you look at him,” she continues. “With curious eyes as a small child. With possessive eyes as you got older. You always needed to be near him. And when you weren’t near him”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“I’m terrified of ruining you for the poor bastard who has the unfortunate burden of loving you after me”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“No relationship comes without a fight”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“Nothing is impossible when two people love each other.” “You’re not supposed to love me like that,” he says”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“Maybe you should be Mario. You’re a lot braver than me,” Theo tells me”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“She feels it”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“And I’ve tried—I’ve tried—to keep my feelings bottled up”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“I swallow. Brant and Peach have always been close—extremely close. They’ve shared a bond so concrete”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“Wendy poisoned my mind with crooked thoughts”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“So I refused to ever see her as my sister. I refused to see the Baileys as my true family because that would make me guilty. That would have given me the darkest”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“This is okay?” “Yes. It’s more than okay. It’s what I’ve been thinking about for years.” “Years”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“All birds have to leave the nest eventually”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“For my husband”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“So”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First