Revive Me, Part Two Quotes

“Small bursts of time together, of belonging to each other, that burn bright and fizzle out while we savor every second of the flame.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“I don’t mind at all. I guess that’s the thing about being shattered more than once in a lifetime. You learn how to be comfortable in devastation, to thrive in it, to look forward to it.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“If I run are you going to chase me?” “I’d chase you to the ends of this Earth, Mallory.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“The first time I kissed you, everything before you ceased to exist. Your taste, your touch, your smell, eradicated it all. You erased me, turned me into a clean slate, a blank page that only you could fill in.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“There was nothing before you, Mallory, and if I have my way there will be nothing after you. You are the first woman I’ve ever loved. The only one I’ve ever chased.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“When the curve of their neck suddenly becomes the only path you want to take. When their lips are your longitude and the unique swirl of color in the center of their irises is your latitude. And every part of you knows that as long as they’re breathing you have a reason to stay alive.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“She’s mesmerizing, all mahogany skin covered in marks that speak of growth, of extension, of living in a constant state of becoming. Full curves rivaling mountain-bound winding roads that take you through lush valleys before you get to the magic of the peak.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“No one knows better than me how complex grief can be. How it manifests itself in different ways, hits you at different times. The way it slithers through all of your old hurts, using them to strengthen its grip on your life.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Yeah, well, going through is hard.” That’s an understatement. Going through is hell. A torturous process with no end in sight.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Fully convinced that I’d been spared the burden of walking the long, harrowing road of paralyzing grief, and gifted with the opportunity to start at the end, where the ache was there but bearable.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Mama always says it comes in waves, but I feel like I’ve just been swept away by a tsunami.” “That’s what happens when you try to go over it instead of through it.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Grief is funny like that. It just comes out of nowhere, demanding your time and attention, not caring where you are or what you’re doing.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“but I’d stop the world for you. I’d freeze time if it meant I would never run out of opportunities to look at you.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Grief is funny that way. A temperamental wave that strikes whenever it wants to, causing you to form attachments to things that never would have mattered, never would have been on your radar, if your person wasn’t gone.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“We were great. We were a collision of destiny and inevitability. We were fate personified. We were everything.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“We won’t ever be done, princess. If we’re both here on this Earth, breathing, living, existing, then we are happening. Nothing is ever going to stop me from loving you.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Logic goes out the window when you’re trying to keep the person you love safe.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“The first time I kissed you, everything before you ceased to exist. Your taste, your touch, your smell, eradicated it all. You erased me, turned me into a clean slate, a blank page that only you could fill in. There was nothing before you, Mallory, and if I have my way there will be nothing after you. You are the first woman I’ve ever loved. The only one I’ve ever chased.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“She says it like I have no idea how much time has passed since I’ve had her in my arms. Like I haven’t counted every day, every hour, every second I’ve lived without her.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Do you know how desperate you have to be to wish for someone who destroyed you, to crave their presence even when you know it’s only going to cause you pain?”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Because from the second I found out Eric was gone, all I wanted to do was hold you long enough to absorb your grief. To take every ounce of the pain you’ve been holding and carry it for you. When I boarded that plane, I knew I had no right to want any of those things, to want anything from you, but I want this, princess. I want to be here for you. Will you let me?”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Maybe they were cool with rushing because they didn’t have anything in front of them that was worth slowing down for, but I’d stop the world for you. I’d freeze time if it meant I would never run out of opportunities to look at you.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Mallory and I weren’t good together. We were great. We were a collision of destiny and inevitability. We were fate personified. We were everything.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“there’s nothing shameful about grieving, about feeling deeply. There’s power in owning these feelings, peace in acknowledging that they exist.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Take what you need.” My encouragement sends a flutter through her core.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Truth or dare, princess?” “Truth.” “Do you want to come up to my room with me?” “Yes.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“We were everything. And now, we’re nothing.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“Still the thing I want most in the world.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair