Charles Sheehan-Miles > Quotes

“I love you, and I want you to be happy, I want you to have the life you deserve. And if that means … if that means I have to stand here and watch you walk away, then I’ll do it. I won’t be happy about it. It’ll break my heart. But … if that’s what you really need, then we’re done.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“I never stopped loving you,” he whispered. “Not even for a second. Even when I hated you.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“When I'm ninety, I want you to tell me that it's my turn to ask you a question, and if that miracle happens, then my question is going to be, 'Do you still love me?' and I hope that answer will still be yes.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“Before you go, you need to know - I'd do anything for you. Even kis you goodbye and watch you go.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“Because you make me better. You make me-you make me feel like I matter. Like my life matters. I feel like, with you, I can do anything in the world. That we can do anything in the world. And we will.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“Sometimes things aren't what they appear. We all have hurts that we don't show.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“I’d say you’re worth falling in love with twice.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“that feeling that I could touch the sky? That’s exactly how you make me feel.” (Ray)”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, The Last Hour

“Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow us to make our own.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“If you send me on my way today," I whispered "If you tell me to get the hell out of your life and never come back...I'll accept it. But it will be the one and only permanent regret of my life: that we never made love.That we lost our future together.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“Home's where the people you love are. It's about finding the things that matter to you, and holding on to them and taking care of them.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“You still smell like strawberries, and it’s breaking my heart.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“Alex, I don't want to date you. I don't want you to be my girlfriend. I don't want us to be together for just a little while. I want you forever. I want us to look at each other, and say we love each other, and decide to be together forever. Alex...I want to spend our lives together. If we ever decided we want to have kids, I want it to be me and you.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“I can imagine a life without you, but it seems impossible dreary, imperfect, unhappy.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“Love meant a lot, it meant everything, and it meant nothing.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“Alex, I don't need to keep myself safe from you. I don't want to keep myself safe from you. You mean too much to me. I'd rather have a lifetime of heartache, from you breaking my heart, than even imagine my life without you at all. Because a life without you wouldn't be a life at all.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“You're crazy, Dylan. Oh, my God, you proposed marriage with index cards? No one else in the world would do that. Yes. Yes, Yes! If you ask me a thousand times, then every single time I'll say yes.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“Sometimes you have to make choices, and they're imperfect, but they're the only choices you can make and live with yourself.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, The Last Hour

“The things you rebel against are the things that define you”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“What do you want from me, Crank?” Her voice was raw, desperate.
I looked at her. She was so close, but might as well have been a thousand miles away. I said, “I want you to love me.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“I want you to love me."
"I don't even know you."
"Then I'll settle for a date. Bowling?”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“And you won't write any more stupid songs about me?"
"Can't promise that. In fact, that may be all I do for the rest of my life.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“Alex, you're so beautiful, sometimes just looking in our eyes makes my heart stop. Even if I never see you again after today...even if I get to be ninety nine years old, and have a life that goes on without you...I will never, ever forget our first kiss.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“I rested my hand on hers. Actually, when I wasn’t paying attention, it was in hers. I don’t know if it helped. I don’t know if it made any difference at all, if she had even the vaguest sense that I was there, that I was thinking about her and hurting for her and praying for her. All I could do was try. All I could do was be here. All I could give her was my love, even if she never knew.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, The Last Hour

“Sometimes, I think... people we put on pedestals... they've got that much further to fall when you realize they're human.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, The Last Hour

“It wasn’t. Ray was too alive, too vital, too much of everything. Everything about him was real, solid. He couldn’t be these things the doctor described. Not breathing on his own. No brain activity. Not Ray.
“I don’t have home without him”, Carrie said when doctor asked her to go home.
“I won’t give up on him. Do you hear me, Doctor? Don’t you give up on him!”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, The Last Hour

“I wonder if that’s why it was so painful when we split up? Because we’d fallen so hard, so fast. I lost myself in him.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

“Before you think I'm a complete pig.. never mind. I am." - Crank”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“Small moment, missed opportunities, things we don't see or pay attention to at the time sometimes have a far bigger impact on our lives than we would have ever guessed in advance.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, The Last Hour

“I don't have room for serious in my life."

He stepped close and brushed my lips with his, then spoke in a low tone. "I want you to be serious about me,”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia