Marley Valentine > Quotes

“You’re the beat of my heart, the blood in my veins, the strength in my bones. None of me works without you. And if you need me to tell you every fucking day for the rest of our lives, then I will, because you are more than enough. You’re everything.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“I love you more than my past. I love you more than the obstacles the present is throwing our way. Because you are my future, and I'm going to love you forever because you are my always.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“She had a life before me, and I have a life after this. The kiss is a commemoration. An ode to the random, unexpected, and beautiful things that come into your life when you need them most.”
― Marley Valentine, Reclaim

“Are you asking if my dick likes dick?” “This is so fucking weird,” he mutters. “But yes, that’s ultimately what I’m asking.” “Well then, yes, my dick definitely likes his dick,” I say with a very practiced straight face.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“You’re mine,” he says with such finality. “You’re my worry, my heartache, my burden. Whatever you think you are, whatever season it is for us, you’re fucking mine, Leo.”
― Marley Valentine, What We Broke

“Your head and your heart aren’t enemies; they’re long lost lovers desperate to be reunited. You don’t have to choose between the two.”
― Marley Valentine, Reclaim

“Get on your back,” he demands. “I want you to remember my face when I fuck you. So you know exactly who you’re walking away from, and the man you better fucking come back to.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“I’ll let you love me for a million lifetimes,” he says. “As long as I can love you for a million more.”
― Marley Valentine, Ache

“the cost of happiness is high. Sometimes we hurt people, and often other people hurt us. It wasn’t ideal, but it was necessary, because we’d never be able to truly comprehend the weight and importance of our happiness if we didn’t work hard to get it.”
― Marley Valentine, Ache

“He might’ve had a piece of my heart, Deacon, but you own it. It’s yours till the day you say you don’t want it.” “Never,” I breathe into his neck. “I will never not want you.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“His insecurities hurt me just as much as they hurt him. The idea that he would think himself to be anything less than the wonderful man he is pains me.
He’s more than he or anybody else gives him credit for, and I’ve made it my mission to make sure he sees the man I see.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“How did I ever think this man was indifferent and unfeeling? Love pours out of him, like he’s been waiting his whole life to shower someone with it.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“My body burns with every confession he sets free, and I hate him for it. I hate him for feeling the same, and I hate him for making it almost impossible to walk away. I hate him as I throw myself at him, because I know with absolute certainty, I don’t hate him at all.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“Life ignites inside of me as I reacquaint myself with my old friends, need and want, adjusting to the thrill, succumbing to the risk.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“I need whatever I’m feeling to not be real, I want it to not be real. I want it to be one of those things death makes up— like when you see something that isn’t there or feel things that aren’t true, just to fill up the empty holes tragedy leaves behind.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“Got something to say, Deacon?” I coax, knowing a witty response is on the tip of his tongue. There’s nothing but blatant lust in his eyes as they freely roam up and down my body. “I had no idea dick was so much fun.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“You think after the last two weeks, and the longest
twelve hours of my fucking life, ” he says hoarsely,
“you weren’t the first person I wanted to see?”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“Life ignites inside of me as I reacquaint myself with my old friends 'need' and 'want', adjusting to the thrill, succumbing to the risk.”
― Marley Valentine , Without You

“It’s not a question, or even a statement, it’s a fucking
revelation. I think I’m in love with you.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“I may have been his big brother, but you were always his right hand.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“Wanting to be around anyone is new to me; craving that invasion of space and time.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“Why do you say things like that?” “Like what?” She’s back down crouching in front of me. “You say his family like you’re not a part of that.” I can see the heartbreak in her eyes as she continues. “Like you’re not my best friend just as much as he is. As if you’re not Raine’s father just as much as he is. Like being Jesse’s husband isn’t enough to make you part of this family.”
― Marley Valentine, What We Broke

“But as I lift up the lid of my most prized possession, I
realize my lifeline might just be the one thing that helps me drown.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“Some days I wake up and I want to eradicate every single
thing of his from my life. I want to erase every single
memory and all our history. And then every other day I pray that I’ll never ever forget him.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“This wasn’t just about ridding myself of the huge anvil
sitting on my chest anymore. Right now, I really just want to be around him. I want him to invade my space and push my boundaries. For the first time, the unknown is much more appealing than everything I thought I knew, and I love the way it feels.

I love that I’m feeling something.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“But, if I’m going to get my heart broken, I want you to leave one hell of a fucking scar behind.”
― Marley Valentine, Devilry

“my heart expands exponentially. My love for him is unable to be contained; it grows daily. Endlessly. Always.”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“Arlo and I were a match made in heaven on paper, we’d just pit stopped in hell first.”
― Marley Valentine, Unwanted

“If”
― Marley Valentine, Without You

“How do you know someone for more than half of your
life and feel nothing, only to look at them one day, and
wonder how you got by without ever noticing them before?”
― Marley Valentine, Without You