Dianna Roman > Quotes

“You taught me how to see. I honestly don’t know why God gave me eyes before you came along, because I didn’t use them for a damn thing until I saw you.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“We’re writing a song, a soft, tender song with our mouths, with our tongues, our heady breaths.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“I learned the most glorious secret of the universe—what it’s like to truly be in love. It’s a fall that never ends. It’s a plummet where
everyone is blind.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“Drawing up the hem of his shirt, I bring my lips to his chest, over his heart, thanking it for beating for me today.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“If his groans are gold stars, I want to paint the fucking sky.”
― Dianna Roman, Tough Love

“This thing inside my chest? Do you feel that? It bangs on my ribs like it’s trying to
break out of a cage whenever I’m with you or without you, whenever I think of you. Let me let it out, Harper,” I plead. “Please? It’s yours already anyway.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“Why did I have to get a job for a guy who’s hotter than the sun and makes my world a
brighter place than it’s ever been?”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“He’s telling me a secret—his lips were made for kissing. I’ll never tell a soul as long as he doesn’t stop. I should stop.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“Every knot in the mystery I’d been trying to unravel was undone. I wanted Jack to be mine, and I wanted to be his.”
― Dianna Roman, The Shutout

“The more I think on it, all I can come up with is this is my Harper. He can go get his own.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“I want to burrow into his arms and let it swallow me whole, let it incinerate me into a pile of ashes, because that’s what I’d be
if he touched me…really touched me, the way a man touches a man. The way I want to touch him and be touched by him.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“I don’t need you to take care of me. I just need you to be happy.”
“I know you don’t, but a partner is supposed to be able to take care of their significant other. And being happy isn’t that simple.”
“Being happy is the simplest thing there is. You just have to let yourself. You just have to tell yourself you deserve to be,”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“When you know your partner is struggling or could use a hand, the natural instinct is to want to give them assistance. Sometimes, however, it’s just as important to stand back and let them succeed or fail on their own.
It’s the only way we truly learn.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“Maybe that’s what I really needed all along, someone kind and alone just like me because together, we’re not alone.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“Is it pride or longing that swells in my chest? He makes me feel useful too, but it’s more than that. He makes me feel appreciated and seen, a lot like what I imagined love is supposed to feel like”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“I’ve put my heart in his hands, back where it was in the first place. I want him to close his fingers around it and keep it forever.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“Some people talk dirty in the heat of the moment. Some people say flowery things. For a man whose job it is to get people to speak, there’s probably an irony in how much I enjoy his silence when we make love. I don’t need words. It’s all there in his face, in his little grunts that almost sound like growls.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“What’s six-foot-two, a fucking idiot, and carrying two milkshakes as he walks into a place he swore he’d never set foot in again? A jackass who apparently has a conscience after all.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“Yeah,” I huff tiredly to the empty room. “Pretty sure I regret every decision I make.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“The pedestal I put him on topples. All my anger, bitterness, and the fog of unrealistic expectations that clouded my judgment fizzle into oblivion. He’s just a man. Just a man trying to survive in the same shit show called life that I am. Maybe he always was. I was just too young and naïve and angry to see it. Shit.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“How could I end up with one man who cared about nothing but himself and another who would walk through fire for me?”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“Life has taught me that more often than not, things get worse before they get better. I really don’t want to find out what’s worse than this.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“Excuse me if I didn’t want to be the seventh Vinny Carmichael in my family.” Jeez. That sounds like an episode of The Sopranos.”
― Dianna Roman, The Holidate Rescue

“And you just got out of a shitty relationship and are super vulnerable, so I need to make sure this guy isn’t taking advantage.” “Oh, brother. How can he take advantage if he’s straight?” “Please. Straight is just one sexual encounter away from gay.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“There’s a picture of our app on a phone and a clothing label maker next to it. Above the images is a logo for the app and the hardware. Olivia—vision reader app. My mother. He named it after my mother.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“This thing inside my chest? Do you feel that? It bangs on my ribs like it’s trying to break out of a cage whenever I’m with you or without you, whenever I think of you. Let me let it out, Harper,” I plead. “Please? It’s yours already anyway.”
― Dianna Roman, Until I Saw You

“I’m pretty sure the amused little smile he flashes me has a bigger one behind it, but I’ll take what I can get. A smile is only one step away from a laugh, after all. And one day, I’ll hear Easton Bennick laugh.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“You don’t ever get to leave me, Easton Bennick. I love you too much to lose you.” ”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“His voice cracks in a raspy wail. I kept thinking how sad it was that his voice wasn’t as perfect as it might’ve been able to be, but I was so wrong. It’s perfect, just as it is. It’s the sound of our broken pasts. It’s the sound of the man that life made him. It’s just as it ought to be.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“I want to know every inch of Easton Bennick until he’s imprinted on my soul. ”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart