T. Torrest > Quotes

“You're beautiful. The kind of beautiful that doesn't go away. Do you even know how beautiful you are? Christ. Stop looking at me! Killing me. Do you know what that does to me? Seeing you look at me like you're half in love with me? Are you? If I write it does it make it true? So let it be written, so let it be done.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“Are you there, God? It's me, Layla. I know I just jerked off some guy who is not even my boyfriend in the bathroom of this crappy, brown house. But if you could find a way to kill me quickly and painlessly within the next ten seconds, I promise to never touch another penis again. Well, I'll be dead, so, I guess I promise not to whore it up in heaven. Which, of course is where you'll be sending me, right? I mean I'd hate to think you'd deny me an eternity behind your pearly gates just because of one impetuous handjob. Thank you. Sincerely, Layla Warren. Amen.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“Be happy. Wherever you wind up. And know that I'll be thinking of you, wherever I am.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“No, Layla. I won't stop." He moved closer, cradling my head to his chest before continuing. "I know you're leaving and I would never try to keep you from going, and I guess I have my own path to follow as well. But don't ever ask me to stop loving you, because I can't. Don't ever think I'll be able to forget you, because I won't.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“I carved out little spaces within my heart; little, lovely mausoleums where I could lock each and every one of them inside, keep the memories safe and close to me forever.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“Okay so I just caught the look you shot me over your shoulder and you need to know that I can't even breathe right now.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“When do you quit wishing for things to be different? Months? Years? Decades? You think that if a sufficient amount of time goes by, it should be enough to help you stop caring anymore. But it doesn't. Ever.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“I could be in love with you”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“I’m sorry about….ever letting you go. I’m sorry for all the time we wasted. I’m sorry for being here with you right now when we can’t do a damned thing about it.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“I'd won our school science fair in the fourth grade, my "Phases of an Egg" presentation eclipsing the dozen or so baking-soda-and-vinegar volcanoes presented by the rest of our class. I'd taken gold in our town's Junior Olympics when I was ten, and got to stand up on the top of a three-tiered pedestal after placing first in the Fifty Yard Dash. One time when I was fourteen, I'd received a Presidential Physical Fitness certificate from Ronald Reagan, when I logged a record-breaking eighty-two situps in the span of a minute. But nothing compared to the sense of accomplishment I felt - no award, no ribbon, no trophy - no achievement lived up to the unfathomable triumph of having won the heart of Terrence C. Wilmington III.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“Oh, the drama! Is there anything so powerful as the love of two teenagers being ripped apart?”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“Maybe. Someday. Just not today.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“No, probably not. But only because I can't imagine ever wanting to be with anyone else ever again.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“My God, every time, it never fails. You happen to me all over again. I never stopped loving you, Lay. You were always with me. Everywhere.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 3: The Finale

“...that teenager still lives inside you. That person you were before the world started telling you how to be, what to say, who you should be with.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“It was excruciating at first, getting over Trip. Not that I ever really did, mind you. But during those first years, I had no other choice but to go on with my life. Because do you ever really get over your first love? Even during your twenties, when you experience that initial taste of being a grown-up... that teenager still lives inside you. That person you were before the world started telling you how to be, what to say, who you should be with. Before you lost yourself in expectations and plans, and could just be a work-in-progress with only the vaguest results in mind.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“And when your plans don’t work out, when your choices turn out to be all wrong… You find yourself alone and defeated, not knowing where to turn.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“It should be illegal to look this good in public. He should be confined to a museum and never let out in real life. His looks are distracting. They could cause an accident one day.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“I'm not me without you.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 3: The Finale

“The beautiful man-boy that held my heart in his memories, who claimed my soul with his smile. I knew that if I kept looking in those deadly eyes, I'd sink into their infinite depths, lost forever. And something in my brain, in my heart, allowed that to be okay.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“Don't say it, Lay. Don't. Because I'm not stopping this. I need to be inside you more than I need to breathe right now. But if we can't do that, if this is all we have... I'm taking it. I'm taking every last bit of you you're willing to give.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“Give me another chance at this. We’re so great together. I want you. I’ve always wanted you.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“Jeez. There were more misunderstandings between us than in an episode of Three’s Company.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“But reality had other ideas.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“The thing is, though, is that I’m yours. You own me. You always did. This is happening. And we’re making it work this time.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 3: The Finale

“His voice was soft. “I did, you know. I did love you.”
… “I know. You did it well.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“I'd never thought of myself as a strong person; it seemed I constantly let myself get knocked down at every turn. But maybe it was true that strength just came from getting back up again, each and every time.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“He looked as pained as I felt at that moment, and I figured we were dancing around something way more dangerous than the roof of my apartment building. If I didn't change the focus, one of us was bound to do something stupid, and soon.

Probably me.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel

“Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at ‘Damn the birds have gotten huge’.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 3: The Finale

“Ummmm, Excuse me, Cokey McWhoreslut?”
― T. Torrest, Remember When 3: The Finale