Bring Me Back Quotes

“You save everyone, but who saves you?”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“When you have darkness inside you, it helps you recognize darkness in others.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Maybe that’s why we have such a hard time moving on from trauma, because we’re still the same person we were before it happened, only everything around us has changed. Life goes on, but we’re stuck in purgatory, replaying old memories of the good times.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“We all carry around the weight of our traumas and try to survive. We do what we have to in order to cope.” I glance up at the night sky. “It’s not us who’s fucked up. Life is fucked up.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Then I remember something my therapist once told me: I need to stop overanalyzing everything. It doesn’t serve me to sit here and waste time wondering why someone did something.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“I’ve got my own damn six.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Who needs family when you have dogs, am I right?”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Phoenix lifts her hand to my face, grazing her fingertips against my jaw. “You save everyone, but who saves you?” I swallow around the ball of emotion in my throat. “Maybe I don’t need saving.” “We all need saving every once in a while.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“You don’t fight for the shit you couldn’t care less about. You only fight for the people you love, and the things that matter.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Music has a way of making me feel as if I’m not alone in my pain because there’s someone out there who feels as much as I do. The lyrics articulate the things I can’t bring myself to admit to anyone, sometimes not even myself, and for those few minutes, it heals my broken soul.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Keeping busy is important when you have depression.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“You’re not supposed to focus on the past, remember? Look forward. Never back, always forward.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Depression will always be there, lurking and waiting for the right moment to rear its ugly head. Instead of hating myself for it and trying to hide it, I’ve made the darkness a part of me. It’s not a flaw or something I need to be ashamed of. It just is, the way my hair is brown and my laugh is loud. It’s who I am and what makes me the person I am today. But it no longer consumes me.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“You’re not going to have all the answers on day one, so tell your anxiety to fuck right off.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“I’ve struggled my whole life with feeling less than.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“James?” “Yes, sweetheart?” “I’ve always got your six.” “And I’ve got yours.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Bring me back, James.” “I always will.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows and cuddly puppies. Those things do exist, but in a dark tunnel when all you can see are dark clouds, pain, and despair, it makes life seem hopeless. We need to hold on to hope, hold on to the possibility that things can get better. We need to take hold of the power we possess and take control of the demons wreaking havoc in our brains. Talk to someone. Get help.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“You were a phoenix long before you were my phoenix.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“held on to you through the darkness, and you brought me back, just like you said you would.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Wow. You went from he’s just my neighbor to getting eaten out on the countertop.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“I yearn for you. My fingers itch to reach out and touch you. My tongue craves your taste. I want you on me, your hair surrounding me, your scent filling my lungs.” He pulls me close, and his lips speak against mine as he says, “I ache for you everywhere. It takes all of my willpower not to devour you whenever we’re together.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“I want to see all of you. I want the broken, jagged pieces, the ones you think are ugly and ruined, the ones you hide from everyone else—especially those. I want to be the one you can trust your heart with.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“He lifts my fingers and sucks my chocolate-covered thumb into his mouth, keeping his eyes locked on mine as his lips wrap around it. His warm tongue skates over my skin, and wetness pools between my legs.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Officer Russo, are you a hopeless romantic?”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“You might not feel like a phoenix, but I’m starting to think you’re my phoenix.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Love can be scary, but I think it’s always worth it in the end, regardless of how it turns out. It’s better to be full of love than full of… nothing.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“They’re not porn books. They just have…” “Porn in them.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Regardless of what you’ve been through, you’re still standing. That seems pretty damn strong to me.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back

“Sometimes, it feels like one more heartbreak will ruin me for good.”
― Kristen Granata, Bring Me Back