J.L. Seegars > Quotes

“I wish I could climb underneath her skin. Burrow into her heart, make her soul my home.”
― J.L. Seegars, Again

“Do you need it or do you need me?”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“If you love this man, if he’s as special as you say he is, then you make sure you hold on to him. Grab this second chance at love by the balls and don’t let go until it stops feeling like a gift straight from God himself.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“I told him I would rather wear the same wig for the rest of my life than spend a minute in his presence.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“He just wants me. At my best, at my worst, and everything in between. When I’m angry and mean, when I’m soft and open. When I’m running from him and when I’m still. It doesn’t matter. He always looks at me just like this, like I’m his and he’s mine, and nothing else in the world matters except those two facts.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“What she is”—he says brusquely—“is someone you will never touch again. In fact, you won’t even think about what it was like to touch her. If you do, I’ll find you and I will fucking end you.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“But this idea you have in your head about not deserving to be happy is ridiculous. If anything, life owes you some good, joyful moments to give you a break from the grief you’ve been carrying around all by yourself.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“Do you want me to go to jail, Sloane? Because that’s exactly what’s going to happen if I let you go and another fucking person in this shit hole touches you tonight.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“I used to think she was a blessing—a gift from God to an undeserving man—but I was wrong. She isn’t a blessing, some small thing held up to prove the existence of a higher power and keep you beholden to it. She is the reason blessings exist. They are born in her eyes and fueled by the blood in her veins. They are forged in her name and written by her hand. She is my religion. Her body is my place of worship, and I will spend the rest of my life at her altar.”
― J.L. Seegars, Again

“I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change…I’m changing the things I cannot accept. ​— ​ANGELA DAVIS”
― J.L. Seegars, The Illusion of Power

“It cost Eric his life. It cost Mama her son and Mal her brother.” The tears are back, blurring my vision so I can’t fully see his face. “It cost you your best friend. And I forgot. I woke up this morning and I was happy… ” “You deserve to be happy, angel.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“Yes, because I didn’t want you to waste your breath on the rest of that sentence when we both know I’m not going anywhere.” “You’re not?” I ask in a voice so small I can barely hear it. “No.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“Eric was my better half, but Dom is the mirror image of my soul. The place where all my shadows and every burst of flame are known, understood, and loved.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“All of them starring my best friend’s wife: the woman I pretended to hate in the light of day but made love to in the darkest corners of my mind every night.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“There aren’t many things I’m sure of in this world, but I am sure that I was made to love Mallory Kent, to guard her secrets and her truths, to kiss her scars, and ensure that nothing, not even me, causes her pain again.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“Angel.” He plants a kiss on my lips. “I’m jealous of the wind that gets to blow through your curls.” Another kiss, this time to my jaw. “Of the fabric that gets to hug your curves all day and the moonlight that streams across your skin at night.” A”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“When I was little, I used to love that tradition”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“Oh, God. I’m so far gone for this man, so completely and utterly in his control, that I would be disgusted with myself if I wasn’t so damn turned on. My hands shake as I retrieve the toy from the drawer and pull it back into bed with me.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“love is a two-way street, a constant ebb and flow of energy and investment. Repeated instances of one person’s weaknesses coinciding with the other’s strengths. That’s what true partnership is, and I’m glad that out of all the things Mallory is, all the things she could be, my partner is one of them.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“That voice. A smooth rasp with a dark lilt to it that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand at attention.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“Fully convinced that I’d been spared the burden of walking the long, harrowing road of paralyzing grief, and gifted with the opportunity to start at the end, where the ache was there but bearable.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“We were great. We were a collision of destiny and inevitability. We were fate personified. We were everything.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair

“and I’ll bear it because that’s what you do for the people you love. You put their needs before your own. You take the rain, so they can dance in the sunshine. You place a bandage over the gaping hole in your chest, so blood doesn’t spill on their shoes.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“...where the setting sun and evening air love her just as much as I do.”
― J.L. Seegars, Again

“I think, we’re well past the point of discussing whether or not I like you. As for how you feel about me….” He starts moving, forcing me backward until my back collides with the wall. “Well, you could say you hate me right now, and I’d still want you to sit on my face.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“When I was little, I used to love that tradition.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“The name and location of the person who put those tears in your eyes.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“Here’s the worst thing about having an enemy: they’re always in your head.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“Shit, it could even be a minor crack in a wall, and I’d take it. Chip away at it with my fingertips, peeling back layers of emotional concrete until my nails were broken, cuticles raw and bloody, when they finally reached her heart.”
― J.L. Seegars, Revive Me: Part Three

“I’d do anything to put a smile on your face, Sloane. Just say the word and it’s yours.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me