When We Were Quotes

“Maybe it was never the sun, maybe that was just him”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“We just flowed so easily. He made me feel so easy. Made me feel at ease.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Tell me. He said, so easily. Tell me everything you want for dinner. Tell me why you made that face. tell me your fear. tell me what is going on. Tell me something. Tell me everything”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“He was different then, and he's different now. I may not have kept any physical mementos from out time together, but in some ways, I always kept him.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“but memories aren't always honest, our clearly weren't. They are filtered and viewed through whatever lens we need them to be. And you don't make decisions on that. You can't build a life on blueprints of memories alone.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Yeah. I loved him. Whatever that even meant to me back then. Whoever I was...yeah, I loved him.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“And it’s not in mourning, but acknowledgement that some houses, no matter how beautiful, only have blueprints.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“But I learned something a long time ago that you can miss something without wanting it back. Knowing that what you miss is just the memory. the version we preserve to protect the imprint of something, or someone, important.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Perhaps just the smallest ember of those fires we set within each remained, but we never stoked it, never tended it, it never grew. Instead, it just flickered as a memory. Until now.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“But that's the problem with drawing lines in the sand. When you're not looking, a wave, aa wind or a petulant child can easily wash them away.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Looking at us, at them, they had no idea what was going to happen. How hard they would fall in love. She had no idea how much she would change because of it. But looking at us so much younger than we are now, I can see it. She was enchanted, I was enchanted”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Morning, sunshine." He is sunshine.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Like a period at the end of the sentence. The last sentence of our book. the final chapter was written last night. He punctuated my lips with that final kiss. Giving me what I asked for. Giving me an ending.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“It's no longer slow-motion. the rolling waves of snow no longer thundering down the mountain. They reached the bottom, and we are buried together under the weight of words.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“These are our best boob years, and we should get full use of them.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“I pull her back in for one more hug, because in some ways this feels like the ending we never got.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“So it doesn’t matter how we choose to remember what happened between us. I know two things...” He looks deep in my eyes, preparing himself for something that seems difficult to admit. “One.” He holds up a finger, and lets the soft smile pull on his lips. “I loved you.” “Two.” He extends a second finger, and the smile falls flat. “Not enough.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Reid, you can miss me now, the way I miss you. The way I think I’ll always miss you. But I learned a long time ago that you can miss something without wanting it back. Knowing that what you miss is just the memory. The version we preserve to protect the imprint of something, or someone, important.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“I’ve missed you. You were the love of my life, and I will always care about you more than circumstance allows.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“I won’t need to keep score to know if I’ve won, because if I walk away from this table knowing you more than I do now, it won’t matter how many points I have.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“But it was the epilogues we both wrote where we had happily ever afters. it just wasn't singular; we didn't share one. We had happily ever afters, apart”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“I realize it's over. Knowing that when I let go, we let go. We choose to breathe. the ember is out. It's not just ash.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“She stole my breath away. But I would never be the thief of her happiness”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“The feeling of her skin on my lips is gone faster than I can commit it to memory”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“His eyes following their track, maybe dangerously thinking, like I am, about the lines of our lives could have taken. But he halts the motion, releasing the thought, and settling his hands back to where they had been resting.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“He lets me take it in. The gravity of this artifact of our relationship. This fossil of us when we were together.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Because of what I do remember, I'm heartbroken, and what I don't, I never want to”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“It's going to have to her. But it will have to be her”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“We fell in. We fell in, stayed there long enough to desperately claim each other one more time in the dark underground beneath the cracked foundation of our relationship. And when we crawled out of the hole the next morning, we ended up on different sides where the earth had been cleaved in two.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Who am I to question that? Who am I to question her? Question what she wants?”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were