A.L. Jackson > Quotes

“She was mine, had always been, and I'd always been hers. Despite what I'd done, the wounds I'd inflicted, she had always been mine.... our hearts had been tied, our bond one that neither of us could ever escape.”
― A.L. Jackson, Take This Regret

“Never would I take what I’d been given for granted. I’d never look at her through indifferent eyes, listen to her fears and worries with distant ears, or touch her with impassive hands. Elizabeth was a gift and Lizzie was my treasure. I would adore my family until the day I died.”
― A.L. Jackson, Take This Regret

“What do you want, Christian?”
What did I want? To make her smile, to wipe away her tears, to hold her. To be a father, a real father, not one in title, but on who’d earned that right. I wanted to stay.
“I want my family,” I forced through the lump in my throat.”
― A.L. Jackson, Take This Regret

“I see beauty and pain. Joy and sorrow. I see the good and I see the bad . . . and I love it all.”
― A.L. Jackson, Come to Me Quietly

“I can't live without you. I haven't lived a day without you.”
― A.L. Jackson, Pulled

“I don’t know how to stop loving you.”
― A.L. Jackson, When We Collide

“Erin called us soul mates, but I…I’ve always known it was more than that. It’s like we share the same soul, and when we’re apart, each half is looking for the other.”
― A.L. Jackson, Pulled

“Make me remember what it feels like to be loved.”
― A.L. Jackson, When We Collide

“My body trembled as all the regrets of my life washed through me, my heart feeling as if it were on the verge of failing. My sould cried out for her. It had never stopped its search for her in nine years, and I could still feel her calling for me.”
― A.L. Jackson, Pulled

“Daddy.
I was struck with the magnitude of what that meant, the responsibility of being a father. Waves of devotion swept through me as I silently promised her I would always be there for her, would always love her, would be the best father I could possibly be.”
― A.L. Jackson, Take This Regret

“My baby girl liked pink”
― A.L. Jackson, Take This Regret

“Maybe now I really understood why Elizabeth had run from me all of these months, why she would never allow herself to believe. A love as intense as the one we shared, one that had not dimmed through years of betrayal but had only grown, was terrifying. We had the power to destroy, to devastate and ruin, to lay the other to waste. But I wasn’t running.”
― A.L. Jackson, Take This Regret

“Because it shouldn't hurt to be touched.”
― A.L. Jackson, When We Collide

“Maybe a love that flamed so bright could only burn us into the ground.”
― A.L. Jackson, If Forever Comes

“Once again, I found myself on the edge looking down, wondering when I’d get so close that I’d fall. Or maybe I’d just jump.”
― A.L. Jackson, Take This Regret

“And it killed me because I could never forget him. Couldn't because he'd permanently etched himself to me, left a part of himself forever within me. For so many years I'd loved him, but when he'd gone this time, he'd taken a part of me captive too, a piece that could never be retrieved because it would always belong to him...”
― A.L. Jackson, Come to Me Quietly

“I loved her. Oh God… I loved her. She was everything, ripped me apart and made me whole.”
― A.L. Jackson, When We Collide

“I'll be whatever you need me to be.”
― A.L. Jackson, When We Collide

“For so long, I’d wanted to hear those words fall from her lips. I’d just had no idea that in those words there would be so much sadness, that they would be tainted by years of her sorrow, and that my own thrill in finally hearing her say them aloud would be tarnished by the immense amount of resentment over what she had done.”
― A.L. Jackson, Take This Regret

“I turned to him, wishing for nothing more than to tell him who I was.
That I was supposed to be Melanie's husband, not him.
That I adored her more than any other creature that had ever lived and always would.
That I had every intention of taking her away from him.”
― A.L. Jackson, Pulled

“Baby, I wish I could tell you how much I love you, how much you mean to me."
He nuzzled my cheek and continued down my neck, setting a fire across my skin, churning coals that burst into flames deep within my soul.
"Show me.”
― A.L. Jackson, Pulled

“I don’t get to have this. I already told you… you deserve someone who can love you, someone who will be good for you, and you know that’s not me.”
― A.L. Jackson, Come to Me Quietly

“I still couldn't believe Melanie was here. It was all I could do to keep myself from jumping over the table to get to her, to fall to my knees, to plead for forgiveness, to beg her to take me back.”
― A.L. Jackson, Pulled

“Seeing her was like seeing a reflection of myself, a mirror of my pain, my loss, my regret. A mirror of what stirred within me now – this love that had refused to die. She had found me. I had always felt her heart calling to mine just as mine called to hers, this power bringing us together once again.”
― A.L. Jackson, Pulled

“Was it wrong that all I wanted to do was kiss her?
I smiled, and Maggie blushed.
Oh God. So cute.
I knew then, I’d give this girl anything she asked me for. I’d probably beg her to take it.”
― A.L. Jackson, When We Collide

“I fucking missed you, okay?”
― A.L. Jackson, Come to Me Quietly

“Fight for what you love. For what's important. Cherish it. Only a fool believes there's a good enough reason to le love go.”
― A.L. Jackson, Come to Me Softly

“It doesn't work like that. We don't earn love... it's a gift we're given.”
― A.L. Jackson, Come to Me Softly

“How could I relax when I had to welcome Christian into my home, the one who had wounded me deeper than anyone, the one who haunted my days and held me in my dreams?”
― A.L. Jackson, Take This Regret

“I stood to take a few minutes to clear my head when a strangled sob grounded me to the floor. My head jerked up, my eyes desperate to find what I so longed to see.
My knees went weak, and I grasped the table for support when my eyes met with the emerald that owned my soul.”
― A.L. Jackson, Pulled