Jennifer Van Wyk > Quotes

“Love isn’t going to go quietly into the night. Love is going to kick and scream and fight and demand it is given over to. Love is the most powerful of emotions. More powerful than anger, if allowed. Because love is the only thing that can help someone overcome. Love is hope and giving grace, and receiving it is the most precious gift anyone can give.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, A Better Place

“She’s just…everything that I never knew I wanted. Needed.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Feels Like Home

“I miss you,” I say.
Her body sags against me, and tears immediately form in her eyes. She’s always been an emotional sap, but I know it’s more than just her normal emotions getting to her now. She feels it too. I need to do something about it, and seeing her to the point of tears breaks my heart. She should never feel that our relationship will cause her tears.
“Don’t cry. Please, Tess. It breaks my heart. I can’t take the tears.”
“I’m sorry.” She sniffles. “I can’t help it. it’s not just the sex. Yes, I miss it terribly, but it’s you. I miss you too. We have to find a way to get back to ourselves.”
“Come on now, I know it’s really just my magical penis that you miss,” I tease her.
She looks up at me with a watery smile and says through her chuckling, “You know it.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, From the Ground Up

“Once we do this, you’re mine. You get that, right?”
“You say that as if I wasn’t already yours.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need

“Don’t go matchmaking. You know I’m not looking.”
“Doesn’t matter if you’re looking or not when the right person gets dropped right in your lap.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need

“I love you so fucking much. You’re mine forever, baby. You know this, yeah?”
“Yeah.”
“You love me, too.”
“I do.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Feels Like Home

“I have more to say and this, I’m not going to apologize for. Here’s the thing. You had no right…No. right. to leave me,” I grit out. “To pretend in some sort of disillusionment I would ever - ever - do anything to betray you. Yes, I’m sorry I didn’t fight for us. But I shouldn’t have had to.”
My words cause her body to jerk but she nods quickly. “You’re right. You shouldn’t have. I screwed up.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Waiting for Her

“You’re it for me. I can’t believe I spent so many years without knowing that, without you in my life and taking over my thoughts. But I want you to know, this isn’t just some passing thing for me. This is everything.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Feels Like Home

“He rests his forehead on mine. “Thank you,” he whispers.
“For?”
“Being mine.”
… “Am I? Yours?”
“You are,” he says, voice firm. “Just as much as I’m yours.”
“I like the sound of that.”
“Me, too.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Feels Like Home

“I didn’t realize I was looking for something. I felt content in the life that I was living, and then Andy walked in and shook everything up, everything that I thought I knew.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Feels Like Home

“You…”
“Me?”
He shakes his head and leans in even closer. “It’s gonna be tough.”
“What is?” I ask, my voice barely above a whisper.
He doesn’t respond right away, his eyes moving over my face as if he’s cataloging all my features. He squeezes my hip once and licks his lips. “You know.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need

“Never again will I allow myself to accept less than everything again.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need

“I know I’m not divorced. Yet. But I’m not asking you on a date. Yet. Truth time?”
“Always.”
“We’re not dating but we’re dating, yeah?”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Feels Like Home

“You’re my kryptonite, Bri Jameson. Five minutes of you being back in my life, I had my tongue shoved down your throat, and all week long, the only think I could think about was doing it again. My biggest fear is I’ll never move on from you.”
…
She seems to brace herself before admitting, “Maybe I don’t want you to move on.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Waiting for Her

“Christine. Don’t let me go. Please.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Feels Like Home

“Enough is enough. Either shit or get off the pot, Bri. Own up to your past mistakes, be honest with him about everything, let him make a decision about whether or not he wants to be with you based on all the facts. Quit pussy-footing around and go get the guy. If you want him, which we all know you do, then quit being a baby and start chasing him.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Waiting for Her

“I went through some of the best and worst moments of my life, and you weren’t there. It was always supposed to be you by my side. Me by yours.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Waiting for Her

“I was content with my life. Liked it the way it was. But now, I know something was missing. It’s as if my entire life I’ve been waiting for Ellie to appear and now that she has, I can only hope she’s here to stay.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need

“She’s it for me. She’s everything. No doubt about it. And I’ll protect her with every last breath I have in me if I have to.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, A Better Place

“I can promise you, I’ll always put you first. I’ll never do anything to betray the love I feel for you or the trust that you’ve given me. I love you. It’s a forever thing for me.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need

“My promise to you … I’m going to do my best to slay your dragons, to watch you soar, and pick you up when you fall. I’ll be by your side helping you to achieve your dreams and will hold you when you need held. I’ll never leave you, sweet girl.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Feels Like Home

“Strong arms wrap around me from behind, pull me back to his chest.
“How long am I gonna have to chase you?” Grady’s voice is gruff, breath hot against my neck.
His hands splay across my stomach.
Lips brush against my jaw.
“Are you done running, Bri?”
I’m a bobble head, my head nodding so quickly I’m lucky it’s attached so it doesn’t roll away.
“Thank fuck,” he growls.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Waiting for Her

“I don’t know how he did it. I didn’t expect to trust anyone with my heart again.
But I’m throwing it at him and hoping he’s caching it, because my heart? It’s gone for him.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need

“Last night I wanted to kiss her.
Right now?
I want to kiss her. As in, bend her over backwards, change our lives forever with a kiss that leaves us both breathless and aching for more, kiss her.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need

“It’s okay. I understand trust isn’t something you easily give. Not anymore. But you need to know that you can trust me. When you’re ready to give it, I mean.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need

“Tess. I love you so much. You’re so beautiful, you take my breath away. I can’t believe you’re still mine after this many years, and I swear – on my life, I swear – I will never let you forget that again. Not for a single second. Not for a single moment in your life will you not feel the love I have for you, will you now know that I adore you with everything that I have. I want your heart, your mind…your soul. I want everything you can give me.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, From the Ground Up

“I’m not saying I won’t fall again, but I won’t stay down. I’ll always rise up to you.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Feels Like Home

“I spent the last six years living without you. Growing up, learning that life isn’t centered around you. It wasn’t easy because I didn’t want that. I was perfectly happy with you being the center of my world. I was bitter because you took that away from me.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, Waiting for Her

“You’re all I see.”
“Really?”
“I’ve been a little afraid of being as pushy with you as I want to be. I have this insane desire to show you exactly how strong my feelings are for you but I have to hold myself back. I want to take this slow, make sure that I’m not a rebound and that our feelings are grounded.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need

“I’m glad you’re my friend, Walker.” While the word friend feels like not enough, it also doesn’t feel wrong. I do want his friendship. And that’s what I need right now.
Not sparks and butterflies or orgasms.
Though, a few orgasms wouldn’t be totally awful.”
― Jennifer Van Wyk, All I Need