Only You Quotes

“And I know you’re not ready for that, but I want you to know that I haven’t forgotten what you said … and I’m waiting for you. I’ll wait for you to be ready. To work through what loss has done to you until you’re ready to be brave. To be with me. One day, loving someone like your dad loved your mum won’t scare you, Brodan. And I’ll be here. I want to be the someone you love like that.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“You never lifted your hands to me, but I’m your punching bag all the same.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“I have loved you most of my life, and I know with a certainty that awes and terrifies me in equal measure…that I will love you until my last breath. Maybe even then.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“Are you scared, Brodan?”
The fear tightened like a fist around my throat, and I could only nod.
“Me too,” she admitted.
Then she moved in my arms, turning to straddle me. Cupping my nape in her hands, she whispered, “I want to hold on, though. Will you hold on with me?”
In answer, I wrapped my arms around and pulled her close, buying her face in the crook of her neck. I’d hold on for fucking forever now.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“There will be no kissing on this date. There will definitely be no sex. Physical desire will be ignored so that we have all of our faculties about us.”
“Why? Will we be solving equations on this date?”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“If I can give you anything, it will just be friendship, Brodan,” I’d said, my voice shaking.
He’d given me this arrogant, cocksure look and replied, “We both know that’s bullshit. It will always be more than friendship between us. Let’s finally stop lying about that.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“You’re here, in front of me, and I know that you’re my missing piece. No one will ever get me like you do. No one.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“When I put my mind to something, I rarely fail. Prepare yourself, Monroe Sinclair, because I’m putting my mind to making up for the last eighteen years so we don’t spend the next eighteen without each other.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“I can accept friendship…but if we’re going to be honest with each other from now on, I should tell you I intend to make you fall back in love with me.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“We are not the same people we were back then, and we’re holding on to the love between two kids who don’t exist anymore.”
“I don’t believe that,” he whispered.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“I’m not yours to take care of.”
There was a moment of silence and then I felt his heat score along my back. His breath tickled my ear as he leaned in, scattering goose bumps down my spine. “You’ve always been mine to take care of. And today is the day I stop failing at it.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“I loved you once in a way I have never loved anyone.”
Emotion stung my nose and thickened my throat.
“But I love the boy I left behind. I don’t love the man. I could never love someone who has treated me as you’ve treated me.”
Fuck, that hurt.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“All that time,” she whispered, grief-stricken. “All that time lost. And now all that’s left between us is resentment and hurt.”
Her words sliced through me. “That’s not all that’s between us, Roe.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“As much as she scared the shit out of me, life with her had to be a million times better than life without her.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“You have no idea how it feels to live your life with no one who truly loves you, Brodan. No idea how lonely that is. But I refuse to give up on finding someone. To give up hope, because without it, what’s the point? So I need to let this place go. I need to let you go. Or I’m afraid I’ll just disappear.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“What is it about me that makes the people who are supposed to love me want to hurt me?”
“Monroe,” he whispered, as if in agony. “I’m so sorry.”
― Samantha Young, Only You

“If I don’t keep it together, I’m afraid…”
“Afraid of what?”
“That I won’t be able to pick up the pieces.”
― Samantha Young, Only You