Jolene Perry > Quotes

“He’s the need and the sparks and the laughter, and he touches my heart in a way it’s never been touched before. It’s terrifying and so honest it makes me dizzy.”
― Jolene Perry, Dizzy

“Because brothers don’t let each other wander in the dark alone”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

“As much as I should keep my heart in my chest, part of it runs away with him. And maybe that means part of his might be here with me.”
― Jolene Perry, Dizzy

“We only see what's close to us, but if we allow ourselves to simply feel, and not see, we can understand so much more.”
― Jolene B. Perry, The Next Door Boys

“Because sometimes all we need is somebody to sit in silence with.”
― Jolene Perry, Knee Deep

“My heart for yours," he offers.
"Deal.”
― Jolene B. Perry, My Heart for Yours

“Whoever you choose to be with will feel like the luckiest man in the world, not a guy who had to give up something to be with you.”
― Jolene B. Perry, The Next Door Boys

“I need you to know that the best place in the world will always be next to you. I'm there until you send me away." Brian”
― Jolene B. Perry, Left to Love

“A kiss for a kiss.
Your shirt for mine.
Break my heart, I’ll break yours.”
― Jolene B. Perry, My Heart for Yours

“Oh, come on, what’s the matter with Romeo and Juliet?”
Megan took the movie from my grasp to put it in the DVD player.

“Do you want a list?” I didn’t wait for an answer. “Romeo’s whining about a girl one day, in love with Juliet the next. He has the decency to marry her but then they go back to her parent’s house? I mean, what kind of asinine plan is that? Come on, their families hate each other! If you’re going to sneak away and get married, just sneak away! It’s like watching the girl in a horror movie walk up the dark attic stairs. She totally deserves whatever
she gets at the top.”

"Are you saying they deserved to die?”
― Jolene B. Perry, The Next Door Boys

“I married the perfect girl. I married the girl who could have done so much better and took me anyway. I married a woman who inspires me to be the best version of myself just by being her. I feel lucky every day to be the man next to you, Leigh. Nothing will ever change that.”
― Jolene B. Perry, Left to Love

“A long time ago, you told me that all the things we've done or all the things that have happened to us make us the people we are now. You change a part of that, you might change all of it.”
― Jolene B. Perry, The Next Door Boys

“To make you hate me
The impossible task
Wasn't as hard
As I'd hoped”
― Jolene B. Perry, My Heart for Yours

“WHAT IS SAFE?



Is safe the hands that hold you no matter what?


Or is safe someone hurting enough to fight?



Is safe the one who is strong as a pillar?


Or is safe who wants to use the strength of two, not one?



Is love safe?


Or is it better to find comfort?


Can there be comfort without love?


Can passion come from warmth?


Or does it need to come from fire?”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

“It's killing me not to do everything in my power to beg you to be with me. To wait for me, because I'm waiting for you. Waiting to tell you over and over how much I still love you...”
― Jolene Perry, Knee Deep

“I had been so worried about him not wanting me that I hadn't stopped to know if I really wanted him--if he was right for me.”
― Jolene B. Perry, The Next Door Boys

“We both breathe in at the same time. I don’t know if we’re breathing one another in, or if we’re both trying not to cry.”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

“The problem is that when you change Romeo and Juliet’s story it ends up like that ridiculous Taylor Swift song. And that’s not what people love about Romeo and Juliet.”
― Jolene Perry, Knee Deep

“ENOUGH
It is simply the measure we use
When we want to say
You're just no what I want
And probably never will be”
― Jolene B. Perry, My Heart for Yours

“Just. Sometimes everything falls apart at once, you know" And I'm slowly putting it back together, but it's taking a freaking eternity.”
― Jolene Perry, The Summer I Found You

“I generally don’t care what we watch because we can be like this, snuggled together in his room, which is my favorite thing in the world to do.”
― Jolene B. Perry, Knee Deep

“How can something as simple as a look make me feel so much?”
― Jolene Perry, Stronger Than You Know

“How am I supposed to go to sleep with weirdness between us?”
― Jolene B. Perry, Knee Deep

“Luke smells like coconut and sandalwood; all things that bring me straight back to the beach house Mom and Dad rent every year.”
― Jolene B. Perry, Knee Deep

“A thin, polished woman walks in. She sticks out immediately in her expensive looking navy dress, shiny bag and shoes that probably cost more than I make in a month. My breath leaves me when I see that her arm is draped around a younger version of herself. That hair, it's pulled back way too tight now, but I'd run my hands through it a thousand times before. That face, now in layer of makeup that makes her look older than I remember, I'd held it in my calloused hands and kissed those lips goodbye over a year ago. She said she'd never see me again and I learned to accept that. She destroyed me, and I'd moved on.
No. Not her. She's not from here anymore. I don't know who that person is anymore.”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

“My heart's cracking apart all over again because of the way I've missed him.”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

“I'd neglected everyone just to spend more time with someone I shouldn't have been spending time with.”
― Jolene B. Perry, The Next Door Boys

“Every experience is a once in a lifetime experience, because no matter how hard we try, nothing's ever exactly the same as it was the first time”
― Jolene Perry, Spill Over

“If I could have seen a year ahead, would I love the girl I am now or hate her ?”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

“I step in to give him a hug, but his hand comes in between us.
His hand.
Because he doesn't want to do any more than shake. With the girl he's made love to. Whose heart is bursting out of her chest.
I'm trembling in a way that makes me feel like I might fall apart any second. His hand touches mine, and I love the warmth of him. Love the way he feels.
My eyes don't live his. He has only some idea that he could be a model for Calvin Klein. This is so weird. I'm supposed to be angry. Hurt. Instead I'm in shock that he still makes me feel this way - like we were something special.”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours