Make Me Fall Quotes

“He drinks up the lie like a plant in the desert, nodding as if a few extra years of life gives me some kind of power to make the world a safe place.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“That’s what this is. He orchestrated a job offer and lost his case and somehow sprained my wrist all in an elaborate plot to get out of his promise to wear jeans. I wouldn’t put it past him.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“You thought I’d never want to move with you to Iowa, but all I want is you. You’re the only world where I make sense. The rest will come later.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“But when I see the look on his face, I know it’s going to be okay. We’re going to figure it out. The two halves of a whole don’t have to look anything alike; they just have to fit together into something better than the sum of its parts. I’m grinning like a fool, my hand on his cheek. “You look so fucking tired.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“I’m supposed to run outside and kiss him, or say something snarky and clever like took you long enough. So many options. What I’m really, really not supposed to do is take two steps back, sit down hard on the rickety arm of the couch, and burst out full-on ugly crying. I’m just so exhausted, so worn out from trying to do the right thing. I wanted him to be happy, but deep down I wanted to know that he could be happy with me, that anyone could be happy with me, that I was worth that.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“You’re his home. No one else has ever wanted him like that. You make sure he knows you’re not going anywhere.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“I think I finally found my princess, Mom. He’s six and a half feet tall, grumpy as hell, and talks dirty as sin. And I’m scared I just lost him.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“But I do know how much it hurts to live without a purpose, especially for him. And all I want in this world is for him to be happy. Even if that doesn’t include me.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“I’m gone, dangerously gone. I can’t come back from this. Even if we break up, even if I never see him again, some part of me will forever be stuck on the moment where Gray Freeman remembered my hand.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“As we walk back toward Ethan and Victor, a melancholy part of me wonders whether Gray is in my dream right now or if I’m in his. Which one of us is going to wake up and realize none of this was ever real. I hope it’s me, because sometimes I think I’m a little bit stronger than him.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“On paper, none of this works—a boy and a man, the sun and the moon, things that aren’t supposed to touch. Neither of us are ready. It feels like reversing the tide,”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“I used to record my dreams, until I realized they were only nonsense and regrets. This time I dream that when I die, before I disappear, I’m taken very high up in the air. I get to see my whole life laid out beneath me, all at once. And I realize, suddenly, that it all made sense in the end.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“I don’t understand. He’s only heard a few sentences about my past, but he knows exactly what I need to hear. Perhaps we build shelter for each other out of the wreckage of all the things we most wanted someone to tell us.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“There’s a weight pressing down on my lungs. This is the part I was so afraid of. You fly, and then you fall, because you were never made to leave the earth at all. “I can’t,” I breathe.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“Don’t call me baby.” “Would you prefer daddy?”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“You egotistical bastard.” His smile gets wider. “What do you want me to say? That I’m completely stuck on you? That I can’t do anything without thinking about you and when I can’t stand it anymore I fall asleep and you’re there, too? Is that what you want to hear? I came back to try and be nice and you’re making it hard on purpose because you like to see me suffer—” Then he’s devouring my mouth, his fist curled hard against the back of my head, years and years of loneliness pouring up and out of his body into mine. I take them all, drink them down until they’re mine and they can’t touch him again.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“His lips barely brush mine, so light I could have imagined them. It might as well be the first kiss of my life, because it’s nothing at all like kissing a girl, hot breath and the faint salt taste, every inch of me a sharp, precious fire. “Gray, baby, please don’t do this to me. I can be good but I can’t be that good.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“I don’t want to let anyone hurt you ever again,” I breathe. “Not even me.” “You can’t do that.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“Don’t go on the date.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“I’m still here,” he breathes. What a mistake, to have him here when I should be lonely. To take from him when I have nothing to give back. “You’re so brave, Gray.” He smooths my hair back from my face, his forehead resting against my temple. “I wish you never had to be afraid again.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“If I could write a perfect moment, piece it together from all the dreams and regrets and unshed tears and quiet breaths of my life, it wouldn’t have come close to this feeling.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“The whole point of sexual identity is that you can make a future with whoever you love. But you have to come to terms with what that future looks like before you can fully embrace it.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“I don’t think I’m ever going to kiss someone again. But if I had, maybe it would have been right here, right now, just like this.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“That’s when it hits me, hard and breathless. In some ways he’s just like Colson, always stopping to enjoy the view, always noticing the small, beautiful miracles in the world while I stand back and watch, lost and unsure, until they come to hate me. I have a fucking type. The type that breaks my heart.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“You’re a force of nature,” he says, very seriously. “Nothing can break you.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“I’m suddenly afraid to unpack those suits tomorrow, to wrap him up in perfectly tailored wool and stuff him behind a desk in an office. I’m afraid that I’ll be committing some kind of mortal sin, caging something that needs to be free.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“Teach me how to suck you.” I kiss the sweaty crease of his hip. “Please. Or else I’m going to hunt you down in some old folks’ home in fifty years because I can’t die in peace until I get to taste your cock.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“I’m pretty sure I’m not bisexual after all; I’m Gray’s-fucking-pec-filling-my-hand-sexual. I”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“Give me the coat and your backpack.” I point toward my room. “Take a shower, then get some clothes from the top two dresser drawers.” There are plenty of showers downstairs, but some primal part of me wants him in mine. “Go on.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall

“This is twisted. He’s so wrong for me. But how can he ever be wrong, how can he be twisted, with that light in his eyes, that smile? Thank God this is almost over, because I can smell ruin in the air.”
― Riley Nash, Make Me Fall