Farewells and Forever Quotes

“We keep talking, we keep working together, we build the future we want. We do it together. That doesn’t mean we won’t have hiccups or stumbles. But we pick each other up, we steady each other, we pick up the slack when someone else needs it.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“You can ask for help,” I reminded her. “But that’s the thing—you have to ask. And to ask, you have to talk.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“I want to stand up there and tell everyone we love and everyone who loves us that we’re committed to this relationship. That we’re a family. That we’re where we want to be.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“Goals, like life, could be ever-changing and fluid.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“every single day was an opportunity. You didn’t have to be in school to strive to learn more. You didn’t have to be enrolled to always be a student. Life was for living, learning, and growing.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“the best education came from living our lives to the best of our capabilities.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“This was something I could do. I could say the things they needed to hear and that you needed them to hear. You deserve everything. Won’t always be easy, but if I can go to bat for you, be damn sure I will.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“To a friendship that lets us fuckup but never lets us get away with it and which we can always count on to have our backs and kick us in the ass—at the same time if necessary.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“Building a family is no easy feat. Often, we think of family as the group we are born into. But family is not just blood. It’s heart. It’s soul.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“Today, I’m marrying my best friend. I’m marrying the girl who was never afraid to pop life right in the nose when it dared to take her on. I’m marrying the girl who defended me on the playground and later kicked me in the ass when I needed it.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“I’m marrying the girl I promised to marry when we were five years old, and she said yes between the swings and the slide. Frankie, you’re my best friend, my lover, my champion, and my heart. Everything I am, is yours, Beautiful. Well, except for the part that keeps these knuckleheads in touch with their deeper feelings.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“I promise you that I will always care, always fight to connect, to be there to comfort you and celebrate you. No matter what life brings, we will cherish the time together and I will support you—all of you—through everything that entails. “Frankie, I am so lucky to have found someone who embraces all that I am, and enriches me by pushing and challenging me to be better. I can’t wait to continue this adventure with you. To build our dreams and chase our goals. I am so excited for this future we’re making. “Baby Girl, you’re my best friend, my lover, my partner, and my heart. Everything I am, everything I will be—it’s yours and theirs. I promise to always defend you and this family. Period.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“I chose you the day I met you. I saw you sitting there in class, and all I could think was, will she look at me with the smile she had when she walked in? Every single day you’ve shared that smile with me has been the best. I choose you now, who you are inside and out. “I promise to laugh with you in good times and in bad. I will endure with you when the road gets hard. I will always respect you as Frankie, my heart, my best friend, my muse. I promise to love you always. And I will always have their backs, my brother boyfriends, as Mom decided to dub them and then the name stuck.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“This is our family. We don’t need to be anything more than who we are.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“I promise to give you all of me. To always talk to you and to listen. To be kind and honest and trust you all no matter what. You are my best friend, my soulmate, my other half—you are the sunshine I never knew I needed, and now I can’t live without you.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“You’re my reason,” I whispered. “All of you are my reason. You were my reason then, and you’re my reason now, and I know you’re my reason tomorrow and every other day that follows. You are my best friends. My protectors. My defenders. My champions.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever

“It’s always us, none of us are alone.”
― Heather Long, Farewells and Forever