Anna Bloom > Quotes

“What are you thinking?” I ask.
“That I wish this was my home, too.”
I have nothing to say to this, so I kiss him instead.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“Taylor Swift is singing "Mine" and I want Ben to be mine. Only mine. Forever.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“The blues are intent and watchful. “You’re trying to get me to change my mind, aren't you?”
“Lilah, I constantly hope that you are going to change your mind, but I know you well enough to know that you won’t.”
I just nod at him.”
― Anna Bloom

“As we move further away I can hear the old lady say, “Remember when we were like that, Ed?” To which the old man replies, “My memory is not that good.”
― Anna Bloom, Gone

“I, Lilah McCannon, aged twenty-five, have just run away from home. I am trying not to think about it too much. Every time I do, I start to hyperventilate with that hitched breathing that precedes a full-scale panic attack.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“Fun! You think I have just been having fun with you? I am insane in love with you, Lilah! I have been since the first night. Remember the night I carried you all the way home, just so you could not meet anyone else before I had the chance to make you mine?”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“What have I got to lose? Oh, yes, that's right, my fucking sanity.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“That’s what life is. Moment to moment encapsulated right in that very second. There is no past and there is no future. It’s in the breath, the focus, the intention to just be.”
― Anna Bloom, The Last Kiss

“This is real life, my real life, and unfortunately you cannot put a happy ending in where it is not meant to be.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“God, get a grip, Olivia. It’s been so long since I’ve flirted that I’m not sure if I’m doing it right to just having a mild stroke.”
― Anna Bloom, The Last Time: A beautiful single parent slow burn romance

“Right now, I feel it.
Life.
I can feel what living is. It’s in one moment to the next. One breath that leads to another. One touch, one sigh, one glance, creating a perfect moment that is imprinted forever.”
― Anna Bloom, The Last Kiss

“You have no idea of the things you do to me. That night, after Fez, I would have happily given you every bit of myself.”

I link my fingers between the buttons on his shirt.

He leans back in. “Then why didn’t you?”

“Because I don’t want you to be the other guy.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“I like to think it is just the end of a chapter. The end of a chapter in the story of us.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“My heart has just sunk. Whatever this is, and believe me I know it’s epic, it can’t ever truly be anything. I have nothing to promise and nothing to give. Anything less than that would be a travesty for a man as exceptional as this one.”
― Anna Bloom, The Last Kiss

“I’d spent so long forgetting to live, keeping below the radar, that I’d long forgotten there could be a spark in the veins that pushed you from one moment to the next with only a heartbeat between.
Life was simply a heartbeat. Love the silence between.”
― Anna Bloom, The Last Kiss

“I’m so glad I met you,” I whisper into the shadowy haze.
His arms tighten a notch. “I’m never letting you go.”
― Anna Bloom, The Last Kiss

“I’ve been ready for you since the moment we met.”
― Anna Bloom, The Last Time: A beautiful single parent slow burn romance

“How can I get married, when the woman I love is sat right here and refusing to wear my ring?”
― Anna Bloom, Tears of Glass

“I hope that Ben remembers all these little perfect moments for the rest of his life. I know that I am going to remember them for all of mine.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“Exuberance is not a trait of which I'm overly fond. I am not that fond of enthusiasm either.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“I have written some very strict University rules that I plan to stick to:

1. No Alcohol

2. No cigarettes

3. No Boys

4. No Going Home”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“You’re real,” he says. “In a world of people pretending, you’re unapologetically yourself.”
“That’s a very generous way of saying I’m a catastrophe with no filter.”
― Anna Bloom, The Last Time: A beautiful single parent slow burn romance

“Besides,” he says with a twinkle of blues. ” When I do have sex with you, I’d rather you were a little more sober.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go