C.L. Matthews > Quotes

“You’re the sweetest fucking thing in the world. I’d never be able to forget you,” I profess, my eyes never leaving her scared ones. “This is real. This is us. And if you let it be, this is forever.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“I’m going to love you now, Lo. Truly, insanely, and wholeheartedly.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“They say you can feel life-changing moments as they take place, a sense of impending doom.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“It’s so hard realizing how you were such a huge part of my life, one I couldn’t visualize living without you in it, just to have you stripped from me by each inhale and exhale. The essence of you lives in me, in them, in him, but I wonder when I’ll be able to breathe safely again. Do you see the tears? Do you hear the cries? Do you feel my pain, too? Where are you?-Lo”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“Then let me hold you, and when you’re ready to go, I won’t stop you.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“So, when life hands you bad cards, you count them, gamble, and become the winner. You force the narrative to have the best possible outcome you can. You can work so hard, be given nothing, yet it’s all down to chance, and none of us actually know what the outcome will be. Proving yourself, fighting for the results you want, it can lead to making those bad cards feel nonexistent. If you’re smart, you don’t settle for less. If you do, you’re not achieving more than trying. Be the catalyst to your own ambitions.”
― C.L. Matthews, Here Loves a Sociopath

“You live through this notion that, as a man, you can’t show pain, fear, sadness, or fealty. That that in itself is weakness. They were wrong. Don’t believe them when they say it’s feeble-minded. It’s not. It’s strength under the bravado of manliness. It gives you power, showing you that even if you break, overcoming that brokenness will heal you. I grew up learning that being a man was how strong you were, how many chicks you bagged, and how much money was in your wallet. It took me too long to realize the wrongness of those idealisms, and by the time I knew, it was too late.-Jase”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“Love her but leave her wild. The quote by Atticus burns behind my eyes, making the tears stream as freely as the quote refers.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“Author Dating Rule #3: Edit your online dating profile.
Pervs are the million pennies lying in a vat of ten nickels.”
― C.L. Matthews, The Dating Games

“I love you more than any goddamn words could ever express, and I'll be waiting. Find your way back to me,”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“Scars made by people can go many ways. They can slice you through your skin. They can slice you to the bone. They can even sever limbs entirely. But scars of the heart, the untouchable ones, the ones that ache deeper but are invisible, branded, tattooed, those are the ones you feel forever.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“Had. We had. It was an indulgence, a selfish cry for help. You’re the drugs that’ll kill me. Loren is the rehab that’ll save me. She is the cure, and you’re the fucking disease.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“I’m going to love you so good, Peaches. I’m going to fuck you until this bed is drenched with our sins.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“Those words don't mean what you want them to,” he explains. “What is love when only said out loud?” I stare at him in the mirror, his eyes never leaving mine. “Isn't love the way I touch your heart in the way no one else can? Is it not the way my lips caress your skin tenderly? Love isn't three words that can be said at any time and in such a simple way. It's the way your heart beats faster when our flesh connects, the way your lips slightly part in preparation of a kiss from me.”
― C.L. Matthews, Always

“We're real. This love we share is real. This life we’ve created together is real. When you're ready to come back to me, I'll be waiting. I wasn’t here for your fall, Peaches, but I’ll make damn sure to be here for your rising.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“This is real. This is us. And if you let it be, this is forever.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“Pain is a finicky bitch, always hitting when you're at your lowest, sweeping in to coerce you into giving in. It's why cutting has always been my outlet and not drugs.”
― C.L. Matthews, Here Lies a Saint

“Hearts are the damnedest things. Capricious, without a care, falling for kindness, breaking for lies, and destroyed by reality.”
― C.L. Matthews, Here Loves a Sociopath