Bec Benson > Quotes

“Maybe this is what trust feels like—a small moment with someone you care about where you don’t feel the need to keep your guard up, or feel like you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop and bracing for impact. Where you can just be messy, vulnerable, and still figuring it out because your partner meets you with space instead of expectation.”
― Bec Benson, All in December

“But underneath the relief is a gnawing thought that’s ugly yet persistent: Why wasn’t I enough to get him to open the door?”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“Just him, doing it all quietly, holding it together with a smile for Sam’s sake, but no arms to fall into once the excitement fades and the silence creeps back in.”
― Bec Benson, All in December

“My whole life I’ve experienced love relatively easily. And now here I am”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“Under all that nothing fazes me attitude”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“My mouth moves against his in exploration”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I wish he were here with me instead of just on the other side of my phone screen”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“No one else has even come close to the feeling of Evan beneath me. All I feel is a burning need to make this muscular”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“Got a foot thing”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“People always talk about how different it is when you find your person”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“As soon as I hit send”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“Every instinct I’ve spent years perfecting is screaming at me to do exactly what I always do when something feels this big: shut down”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I want him aching for me. I want him so far gone for me that he can’t think straight. I want to be his new favorite memory of Bloomington.”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I miss you”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“So stop trying to protect me from the hard parts”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“You don’t have to be okay for me to want you. My love isn’t something you have to earn on your good days.”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I’ve never seen such deep blue eyes before and every time I see them”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“For everyone who’s ever felt like too much”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I love that I can make you feel so much with just a simple touch.” There are a lot of words I’d use to describe the way Marcus touches me”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“Away from him”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I want you to tell me you’re going to keep doing the work. That you want me. That you’re not going to disappear next time this gets hard and that you mean it this time. Or fuck”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I’m not going to let you fuck up your entire life because your family fucking sucks. Okay? You can’t destroy everything good in your life”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“You know you didn’t need to book a hotel room just to get my number”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“and if the universe were ever on my side”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“All I can think is: I am so hurt”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“That’s when it hits me: tonight is the most alive I’ve felt in so long. Since last Thanksgiving”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I disappeared because I didn’t think I deserved you”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I’m sorry I didn’t do better by you.”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I’ve never wanted to crawl back into a back seat with someone so badly.”
― Bec Benson, Every November

“I don’t know how to hold all these feelings at once—the anger and the love”
― Bec Benson, Every November