Maggie C. Gates > Quotes

“Grief doesn’t come in stages. Frankly, it would be easier if it did. It ebbs and flows like waves. Bad days always follow good days, but better days are never far behind.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Dust Storm

“Hope is simply hanging onto threads of abstract desire. Expectations are the application of hope.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Dust Storm

“What did you say to him?” I packed up my shit and stood shoulder to shoulder with her. “That I’m the only one who gets to bitch about you.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“I kept thinking about how I’d give up all the stars in the sky if it meant I got to hold the one that fell into my arms.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“It takes a strong cowboy to put up with a bull, and a strong woman to put up with a cowboy.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Dust Storm

“Sometimes you get to cut the fire line to stop the blaze, and sometimes you have to walk through it to get out of the heat.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“All the shit that gets stirred up and clouds your mind. Eventually it’ll settle. You’ll be able to breathe easier.” He looked ahead. “Doesn’t make it better in the moment. Dust storms happen. It’s okay to close your eyes and stumble through.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Dust Storm

“If people didn’t start looping me in, I was going to lose it.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“Wear flowers on your sleeve rather than your heart. You’ve bled enough, darling. Let yourself bloom.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“Rule number one. You ride in my truck; you let me open the door.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Dust Storm

“Did you sit with her in the dark and help her open the curtains or did you walk away and wonder why she wasn’t turning on the lights?”
― Maggie C. Gates, What Saves Us

“I rocked between my feet, making her sway with me.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“Downpours happen. You either drown in it or grow after it.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Downpour

“We’re all just looking for a place where we belong.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“I want to be the person that people go to when there’s a problem. I want to be the one who gets the calls in the middle of the night to fix something that’s going wrong. I want to be the one that holds everything together. I want to be irreplaceable.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Dust Storm

“You want my last name? It’s yours.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Downpour

“Making choices that affect the trajectory of your life is hard.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“Come on. I’m not going to let you run off like a tattooed Cinderella.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“Rule number one: if you’re going to kill someone, make it look like an accident, cry at the funeral, admit nothing, and deny everything.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Dust Storm

“I reached up, cupped her chin, and wiped away the tear with my thumb as a low growl slipped from my chest. “Who the fuck did this to you?”
― Maggie C. Gates, Downpour

“I like the rain,” I said, kissing her goodnight and pulling her closer to my side. Brooke rested her head on my chest. “Why is that?” “It’s a reset. Tomorrow, we can go outside. The grass will be greener, the air clearer, and the pond higher. Sometimes, life needs to pause. And sometimes, it takes something beyond our control to make that happen.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Downpour

“She was hot. And crazy.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“Pain tells us that we’re still alive and breathing. You can heal from pain. There’s still something ahead for you—it’s just gonna hurt for a while.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Wild Card

“Sometimes, life needs to pause. And sometimes, it takes something beyond our control to make that happen.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Downpour

“If the clouds don’t part where you are, keep going until you find your sunshine.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Downpour

“Watching pitiful droplets fall into the bottles as my body was literally vacuumed dry sent me into a nervous tailspin each time.”
― Maggie C. Gates, What Saves Us

“And I’ll need the scoop on whatever’s about to happen with that cowboy who’s looking at you like a coyote looks at a little baby bunny.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Dust Storm

“Either trouble suits you or it follows you. I’m thinking both.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“Fine’ is the biggest lie we force ourselves to believe. You’ll feel better when you admit you’re not fine than when you try to pretend you are.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Fire Line

“If I had to choose between you and the sun, it’s you.”
― Maggie C. Gates, Downpour