Elliot Fletcher > Quotes

“You need to leave and I won't ever try to hold you back. But how about this . . . when you go, what if I just keep on loving you. For the rest of my life. Would that be okay?”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“There wasn't a day or a moment when you finally worked your way beneath my skin, you were already there . . . every time I saw you, you buried yourself a little deeper. You were inevitable, princess. Holding back my feelings was like trying to hold back the tide.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“You’ve clearly never heard of a TBR, friend.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“As humans, we demanded a beginning and end to make sense of the world around us. But for this, there would be an after, but no end. My love for her was as boundless as the mountain we lay upon. When she left me, my love would remain, burning just as fiercely as it did now.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“She was the one about to come but I was the one out of my mind.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“For us it would never be goodbye.”
― Elliot Fletcher, The Paris Syndrome

“A thousand lifetimes wouldn't have prepared me for you.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“Touch anything you like.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“Taking it in my hands, I flipped the cover, heart stalling at the title page. At my name scrawled over and over again in a teenaged cursive, dotted with little pink hearts. I ran my thumb over those tiny annotations like I could draw the ink directly into my veins. I looked at her face again, and made a decision. Screw it. I was going for it.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“Small communities stuck together, but they also had a penchant for gossip and judgment, should people not act in a way they found palatable.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“I didn't know how to begin to solve it. I wished for an evil to vanquish. A dragon to slay. A physical challenge I needed to overcome to save the day like a hero in a movie. All I had was me.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“It was possible to care too much. Caring too much had consumed every part of me. I was just starting to get those pieces of myself back.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“She loved him. He loved her. That fact was no revelation. The sky was blue. Julien loved Roselyn. ”
― Elliot Fletcher, The Paris Syndrome

“Have your own definition of success... so you can fulfill your dreams, not someone else's expectations of your dreams.”
― Elliot Fletcher

“I wanted you to know you'll always have a place in the world where someone adores you, a place where someone is wondering where you are and if you're okay. A place where you'll be safe if you ever feel like coming back. A home.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“I want someone to keep me warm . . . I want . . . I want to be important to someone." Her voice broke in the middle. "I want someone to text me every day and ask me what I want for dinner so I can reply 'no idea.' I want someone to wonder where I am . . . I want someone to see me.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“when you go, what if I just keep on loving you. For the rest of my life. Would that be okay?”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“He should narrate the smutty audiobooks I loved to listen to. It would be like having a sexier James McAvoy whisper in your ear.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“Maybe if I held her tight enough, I could erase anything bad that’d ever happened to her, stop anything bad from ever happening again.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“Did you dream of me like I dreamed of you?”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“I think everyone has that voice that says they aren't enough. Some people just hear it louder than others.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“get that this isn’t the most healthy declaration of love,” he continued, “but you literally brought me back to life and made me believe in myself like no one else ever has. I wanted to give you something in return. I wanted you to know you’ll always have a place in the world where someone adores you, a place where someone is wondering where you are and if you’re okay. A place where you’ll be safe if you ever feel like coming back. A home.”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business

“You need to leave and I won’t ever try to hold you back. But how about this . . . when you go, what if I just keep on loving you. For the rest of my life. Would that be okay?”
― Elliot Fletcher, Whisky Business