All My Love Quotes

“My life is like the ocean. Sometimes, I’m at the top, floating on my back, the sun on my face. Happy, warm. Whole.  Other times, I’m in the deepest, dark blue depths, so cold I can’t remember what the sun feels like anymore. I'm numb.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“I’m always Riggs to you. And you’re my little star. Ironic when you’re my goddamn sun, when my entire world revolves around you.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“I won’t ever let you go. I’ll loosen my grip so you can breathe, so you can chase your dreams, but Stella, I’m never letting you go again. I’m honored I get forever to see how bright you burn.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Seven years—more, if we’re being honest—of avoiding hard conversations to keep the peace or avoid picking at wounds. All it’s done has made things worse. All it’s done was put seven years of distance between us and fueled miscommunication and misunderstanding.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“It’s shit like this, the simpleness of a hello kiss and having her in my arms, of being here when she came back from running errands that I tend to miss most of all.  The casual, warm love of being with Stella. ”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Are you too scared to reach for something beautiful?”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“I’ve been irrevocably in love with Riggins Greene since I was five and I realized I had a crush on him. Fell further when I was ten and he punched Timmy Stewart for saying my pigtails were dumb looking, and I kept falling when I held his hand at his mother’s funeral.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“I’m scared,” she whispers. “I know,” I say. “I am, too. But what’s the point of swimming to the surface if you’re not going to fight to see the sun?” She sits perfectly still, and I wonder for a moment if I pushed too hard. But still, I wait, and my patience is rewarded.   “I’ll fight, Riggs,” she whispers finally. It’s then I know we’ll be okay. Because if Stella is willing to fight, I’m never giving up. Never.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Because even if you aren’t ready for that again, you’re mine. That means you’re also mine to take care of.” ”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Sit up. Let me do your hair,” he says.  “Riggins.” “Humor me.” For some reason, I do as he asks, sitting up, then tipping my head back when he asks. He starts gently working on the hair tie which I know from experience of coming out of one of these episodes is tangled with my hair. When it’s free, a thumb presses into my shoulder, and he whispers, “Tip your head back.” I do what he asks, not questioning it, and he takes a cup, slowly pouring warm water from the tap over my head, avoiding my eyes diligently. His fingers work slowly once it’s all wet, scrubbing in shampoo, using the tips of his fingers to rub at my scalp, and slowly loosening knots before rinsing out the suds. Next is conditioner, which he slathers in my hair, then takes a comb he must have found somewhere and slowly, meticulously begins to brush out the week of neglect.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“You’re punishing me, pushing me away because of who I used to be, but I don’t even know that man anymore, Stella. How is that fair, paying penance for a person I’m not?” he whispers, hitting a sore spot, a place I’ve contemplated more than a few times since he’s been back.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Cracked wide open, I see Riggins staring at me. He’s open and honest, and I see it all. The guilt, the fear, the anxiety, the sadness.  But I also see the love. It’s like he’s trying to show me why he really came home. It wasn’t the marriage or the town or the music.  It was me. It was us. It was because just like me, he has only been half alive for nearly a decade and he’s tired of living without me.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“I don’t say yes the way he asks, but I say what I need to say. “Destroy me. You’ve done it once before. What’s a little pain with my pleasure?”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Funny how you can go years without seeing someone, they come back into your life for a few weeks, and suddenly you feel that loss all over, like it’s fresh and painful.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“I can’t help it. Even though the rest of my life feels like it’s crumbling, I smile. I smile big.  Because after a lifetime of being head over heels in love with my best friend, he’s now my boyfriend.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“I’m yours. I’m yours, and I’m back, and I’m here to protect you,” he says to the top of my head. ”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Most days, I’m simply surviving, and when you’re simply surviving, people’s poor opinions of you start to matter less and less.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Sit,” I say, pointing to a curb.  “Stell, it’s not necessary⁠—” “You keep throwing the wife thing in my face, so let me return the favor. You’re my husband. Let me take care of you.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Her fucking husband,” Riggins says in a low growl, and my entire body tightens, both with the clear aggression in his words and with what he’s saying.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Yeah, Riggs. I’ll go with you,” I whisper, and the words feel huge when I speak them out loud. He doesn’t respond, instead lifting our joined hands and pressing the back of mine to his lips.  Even though it probably doesn’t count, I catalog it as the first time Riggins kissed me.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“He absolutely destroyed me once, and I barely survived. A second time might kill me.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“But you were always extraordinary, Stella. The brightest star in the sky.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“I miss you in my bones. You are my person. A part of me is missing when you’re not near.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“I’m yours. I’m yours, and I’m back, and I’m here to protect you,” he says to the top of my head.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“And for the first time in seven years, I kiss my wife.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“I’m always Riggs to you. And you’re my little star. Ironic when you’re my goddamn sun, when my entire world revolves around you.” “Riggs.” It’s almost inaudible now, but I watch her lips form the word. “I’m going to kiss you now, Stell,”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“What are you doing here?!” I ask in a whisper.  “Breaking you out, Stella girl. Come on.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“Gracie, 1 year old in New Mexico, scribbled in all too familiar scrawl on the back that he also left behind.  And below that, You’ve still got all my love.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“She’s a free spirit, little star,” I remember him saying. “Just like you; she always comes back to me.” “Just like me,” I had said with a wide smile, a smile he had liked a lot because he kissed me so hard, I thought it was going to bruise.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love

“The only thing I love more than writing songs with Riggins late at night is lying under the stars with him.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, All My Love