Katy Regnery > Quotes

“The problem with hope was that you were required to acknowledge the possibility of not getting what you desperately hoped for.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You’re grateful for crumbs.
--Asher”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“The first time you sit in comfortable silence;
The first time you realize you enjoy his company more than anyone else’s;
The first time you look like hell and he couldn't care less;
The first time you talk until dawn;
The first time you bring him home to meet the family;
The first time you're naked together and you don't feel a shred of insecurity;
The firt time you realize that you don't want anyone else but him;
The first time you see a future with him;
The first time you take a trip together;
The first big blowup fight;
The first time you realize he's your home;
The first time you realize taht he loves you as much as you love him.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“Are you whole or broken?”
“I’m whole … I’m whole because I’m with you.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“I miss you like crazy. I love you forever.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“She loved him in a way that was necessary, not luxurious. She loved him like the tide loves the sand—trapped together, one lost without the other, pushed and pulled, but never ripped apart. She loved him in a deep and singular way, almost as though God had crafted one heart in heaven, then split it between Holden’s body and hers, fating her to a never-ending longing to be with him, or a fractional life without him.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“The heart wants what the heart wants. Beyond common sense. Beyond higher reason.”
― Katy Regnery, By Proxy

“I’ve been half dead for ten years, Gris, but then you walked back into my life, and I came alive again. You make me want to live. You make me want to be a better man.
“I love you, and when I said that, I mean that you’re my reason for breathing, for eating, for drinking, for sleeping, for living. I will never hurt you. I will never leave you. I will always protect you. There is no one more important to me than you, and as long as I live, there never will be.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“I love you. I’ve always loved you. And I’ll go on loving you until I don’t anymore.”
― Katy Regnery, Playing for Love at Deep Haven

“I jump, you jump.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“I’m in love with you. With everything I am, I love you.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“My body is marked with you. My arms. My chest. My eyes. My head. My heart.” Tears rolled down her cheeks. “I can’t erase you. I’d have to die to be free of you. D-don’t you see that, Gris? C-can’t you see? There is only you for me.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“Familiar like a forgotten song from long ago that takes you back to a moment the second you hear it. And you recognize who you were. Then. And now. And you have to figure out how to reconcile the two.”
― Katy Regnery, Playing for Love at Deep Haven

“Even when we were apart, we were still together. Even when I thought you were gone, you still lived inside my heart.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“Keep your fingers on the letters. H+G”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“For someone with one hand, you’re strangely like Vishnu. Everywhere at once.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“And I’ll tell you something else. I’m not worried that you’ll find someone else, because there isn’t anyone else on the face of the earth who could ever love you as much as I do. It’s impossible because no man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. And I’m not worried about me finding someone else, because you brought me back from the dead and gave me a second chance at life. You’re my miracle, Savannah, and I will always belong to you.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“When a heart breaks, it somehow stays whole. It keeps beating. It keeps pumping. Only the person who owns it knows that it’s been shattered.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“Forever, Griselda. Once you’re mine, I’ll never let you go.”
“I already belong to you.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“Holden . . .,” she said, giving him a look. “Everything fucking hurts,” he admitted, wincing. When he looked at her face, though, it was impossible not to grin. “Except my heart.” He paused, spellbound by the sight of her so close. “But even my heart hurts a little.” His eyes dropped to her lips, and he watched as they tilted up a little. “Why’s that?” “Because I missed all of this. I missed ten years of . . . You . . . are so beautiful.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“Are you whole or broken?” “I’m whole,” he said, swiping at his nose and holding her blue eyes with his gray ones in the sparse and dying twilight. “I’m wh-whole because I’m with you.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“This isn’t the sort of love that ends,” he said softly. “It’s forever. It doesn’t matter if you go to Phoenix and I stay here for a while. We’ll find each other again. Do you know that, Savannah Carmichael?”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“What does he play? Guitar? I have to say it: I bet a hot guitarist screwing your brains out would do a number on your writer’s block too.”
― Katy Regnery, Playing for Love at Deep Haven

“Sometimes my sadness and my anger still feel as hard as ice; that's how I saw them for a long time, in fact. Sadness and anger, an infinitely wide, infinitely thick casing of frost around my heart. Many days, I didn't know how my heart kept beating. And there were days, I'm ashamed to admit now, I just wished it would stop.
But it kept throbbing with life, like it knew that someday the ice would melt. I both dread and welcome the idea of that day. Loving someone new will hold such immeasurable risk for me- how could I bear losing someone all over again?- but living like this for the rest of my life? In a constant state of grief? It's the only thought more unbearable than moving on. Because this isn't living. This is barely existing.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“A good orgasm could really mess with a girl.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“You don’t want me to fight? I won’t fight. You want me to break up with Gemma? She’s gone. You want me to quit my shit job, give up my apartment in Charles Town, and move to Maryland? Done. You want to go to college? I’ll make it happen. “I’ve been half d-dead for ten years, Gris, but then you walked back into my life, and I came alive again. You make me want to live. You make me want to be a better man. “I love you, and when I say that, I mean that you’re my reason for breathing, for eating, for drinking, for sleeping, for living. I will never hurt you. I will never leave you. I will always protect you. There is no one more important to me than you, and as long as I live, there never w-will be.”
― Katy Regnery, Never Let You Go

“The gist of it was, if you lie, you must remember your lies. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to keep track of your words.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“Asher,” she said, eyes closed, nuzzling his neck lovingly. “Yeah,” he finally managed, clearing his throat and taking a deep breath. “You stayed alive, Asher. I think maybe you stayed alive for me.” The impact of her words made him quake in her arms, and he exhaled like the wind had been knocked out of him.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You’re grateful for crumbs. You make the best of small mercies. You endure large trials. You understand that life owes you nothing. You expect nothing, and when something wonderful happens, you don’t trust it. You know it can’t possibly last.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“I did. I stayed alive for you. For the dream of you.” “And now I’m here.” “And I’m never letting you go,” he said fiercely, his hand moving possessively to her hip, where it lay heavy and insistent.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet