Amie Knight > Quotes

“Home isn’t a place. It isn’t a thing. It’s the feeling people give you when you’re with them. That’s home,”
― Amie Knight, The Line

“No regrets, only happiness.”
― Amie Knight, A Steel Heart

“She thought I didn’t remember her. The truth was, I couldn’t forget her.”
― Amie Knight, An Imperfect Heart

“The drums give life to music. And the heart, it’s the music of life.”
― Amie Knight, An Imperfect Heart

“Her eyes were still closed, but her lips were smiling.
“Why?” I wanted to watch her. She knew how I liked to watch.
Her grin widened at my question. “Because you can’t dream with your eyes open.”
I lifted up onto one elbow until my face was right above hers. I could practically taste her sweet breath. “I’m pretty sure I can,” I whispered. Because my dreams had never compared to a moment I’d spent with her. She was the dream. She was it for me.”
― Amie Knight, Beneath His Stars

“True love. Mad love. Deep love. The kind of love that makes you do insane things. The kind of love that makes you as angry as it does happy. The kind of love that hurts you as much as it heals you. The forever kind.” Her eyes closed. She was exhausted, but she finished before dozing off. “Truly. Madly. Deeply. That’s what I want.”
― Amie Knight, A Steel Heart

“You can’t be running scared of everything you love, or you’re gonna miss out on all the best things in life.”
― Amie Knight, The Line

“Me and baby girl. We’re a team. And we’re gonna do this thing. With or without you, but I hope it’s with you because I hear you’re good and I need someone who can deliver a miracle.”
― Amie Knight, An Imperfect Heart

“She was gonna fucking fill me, this woman-girl who didn’t realize what she did to me with her body. With her personality. With her snarky wit and sweet eyes. She was a lethal combination and completely fucking clueless.”
― Amie Knight, A Steel Heart

“The line had brought us together, irrevocably entwining our fates.”
― Amie Knight, The Line

“I’d never seen the man smile in the month he’d been living next door to me and for some reason that made me all the hotter for him. He owned that scowl. He freaking rocked it.”
― Amie Knight, A Steel Heart

“I should have known it was going to happen. After all, she’d stolen my heart in just one night years ago. It shouldn’t have been a surprise, her ability to totally obliterate my soul. And she had, a little at a time, day by day, until she owned me.”
― Amie Knight, An Imperfect Heart

“I didn’t know how to stop loving her, but I didn’t know how to love her anymore, either.”
― Amie Knight, See Through Heart

“God, I wanted her to be mine. But I wasn’t in any shape to take anyone as mine. I was a mess. I couldn’t get through a day without pain and anxiety meds.
I had nothing to give this beautiful woman who could give me the world.”
― Amie Knight, A Steel Heart

“That’s the thing with loving someone so deeply – it doesn’t go away simply because that person does something awful to you. It doesn’t just go away because you want it to. Love could be as cruel as it could be wonderful.”
― Amie Knight, See Through Heart

“Where are your pants?” I shouted a little louder than I intended.
She pulled the pillow off her face long enough to look at me and narrow her eyes before covering her face again and answering. “It’s my policy. The no pants policy. And this is my apartment. So if you don’t like my policies, you should leave.”
I felt my eyes widen. “You have a policy that you don’t wear pants when you’re at home?”
“Correct,” she confirmed.
“I should stop by more often,” I mumbled.”
― Amie Knight, A Steel Heart

“I laid my forehead to hers, breathing hard. Fuck, I wanted her. I wanted her more than anything in the entire world. “’I’m not good for you, baby. I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know what this thing is between us. I just know I don’t want it to stop.”
― Amie Knight, A Steel Heart

“Kelly was back. Only she was different and so was I, and for fuck’s sake, I was supposed to save her baby’s life. She was just another patient’s mother, or at least that’s what I told myself. But I knew better; she was the one who got away. The one I’d let get away. It had been a mistake.”
― Amie Knight, An Imperfect Heart

“You’re my best friend in the world. You’re my everything. You’re my Mae.”
― Amie Knight, A Steel Heart

“I don’t expect my one to walk from the pages of one of my romance novels. Whoever this man is, when he comes for me, we’re gonna write our own story.”
― Amie Knight, A Steel Heart

“I knew you’d taste like that,” he said…
“Like what?”…
“Like you’re mine.”
― Amie Knight, See Through Heart

“My memories of her were laced with lust, heat, laughter, and something on the cusp of young love. She remembered the ending. Not the beginning or all the good stuff in between. It was my fault.”
― Amie Knight, An Imperfect Heart

“I love you and because I love her … it wouldn’t be just her heart and your heart on that table, it would be my heart, too.”
― Amie Knight, An Imperfect Heart

“I thought my life was full. But in that moment, I was acutely aware of how wrong I’d been. I’d been missing her all these years and didn’t even realize it.”
― Amie Knight, An Imperfect Heart

“It’s always been you, Ainsley. For me, it’s always been you.”
― Amie Knight, See Through Heart

“You’re still a fucking wreck, and it kills me that, even as shattered as you are right now, I still want you more than my next breath. Because I can see through all of this shit you try to cover up with. I see through straight to the heart of you. Straight to my Ainsley . The girl who rescued me time and time again as a kid. And I can’t help but still fucking love her. And I hate myself for it.”
― Amie Knight, See Through Heart

“It’s easy not to have sex when the only girl you want to have sex with his friend zoned the hell out of your ass.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“Ainsley Michelle James had been in my heart for as long as I could remember
I was only just realizing she’d been in my soul for just as long.
Our destinies had been written the moment I’d laid eyes on her, and I wasn’t going to give her up ever again.
I’m fucking coming for you, Sunshine.”
― Amie Knight, See Through Heart

“Have I ever once let you fall?”
Her tender gaze fell on mine, years of friendship swirling in their brown depths. “Never.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“I wanted his hushed conversations, his stories that transported me to another place. A place where homeless girls didn't live in train stations. A place where there wasn't hunger or cold. A place only my cowboy had taken me. I needed to figure out how to get there, and I needed more info on Cole to do that.”
― Amie Knight, The Line