Pamela Sparkman > Quotes

“He turned my face toward his. “I want you to look at me when I tell you this. Look me right in the eyes, baby, and hear what I’m saying… I would rather walk through hell with you every day than spend one day in heaven without you. I love you, Lily. If you need to yell and scream then yell and scream. And when you’re done I’ll hold you in my arms and make sure you never forget that you are the reason I was put on this earth. It was an ugly twisted road, but this – you and me – we were always meant to find each other. And I was always meant to love you.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Stolen Breaths

“We'll do this together. I tell you one thing about me every day, and every day you will tell me one one thing about you. We can learn about each other in small doses. One sad, fucked up, complicated, heartbreaking layer at a time.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Skin Deep

“His eyes remained locked on mine and I fought back the tears that were stinging my eyes. “Cooper,” I said, swallowing the lump that was forming in the back of my throat, “you know that game where you fold your arms in front of you and fall backward and trust that the person behind you catches you?”

“Yes,” he said in a raspy voice.

“You know that feeling you get when you close your eyes and fall back, but right before someone catches you – that split second when you aren’t standing up and you aren’t lying down – you’re in between and all you can do is hope that you didn’t make a mistake and trust the wrong person to catch you, but you know it’s too late because you’ve already fallen?” Cooper nodded. “That’s how you make me feel. Like I’ve already fallen and I’m in the in between. My heart is constantly in my throat and I’m suspended in time, waiting for you to catch me. That’s what you do to me. Every time you walk in the room. Any room. This is what you do to me.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Stolen Breaths

“We all have secrets, Beth."
"Not like mine."
"Okay, I'll tell you one of my secrets and make it fair."
She gave me a sidelong glance. "You don't have to do that."
"I know. Strangely, I want to tell you all my secrets.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Skin Deep

“He smiled today. His smiles are as rare as mine, so I took his smile and tied it to the ribbon around my heart, where I can treasure it always.”
― Pamela Sparkman, The Moon Shines Red

“May the roads we travel never lead us astray, but if by chance we lose our way, may the echoes of laughter guide us back home some day.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Back to Yesterday

“We are not creatures designed to be alone. We can get by on our own, that's true, but I don't want to get by. I want to touch the clouds." ~ Maggie”
― Pamela Sparkman, Shattered

“I held hope in my hands every day. I treated hope like it was a precious stone. I clutched it so tightly that I sometimes felt bruised by it.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Back to Yesterday

“My eyes surveyed the woman standing in my house, and it felt familiar. Not familiar in the sense that she’s been here before; familiar in the sense that she’s always been here. Like she was the other half of me, and we were just now finding each other. It was that kind of familiar, which is ridiculous I know, but that’s how it felt.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Shattered

“Every time I hold your hand, or hear your sweet voice, or see you from across the room, or when I hear you laugh... God, I love to hear you laugh. It’s the sweetest sound in the whole damn world. And I would suffer through hours and hours of Joe’s dumb jokes just to hear that sound. Do you know what you do to me? Do you know? You wreck me and heal me all at the same time.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Stolen Breaths

“Joe pulled me gently into his arms. We held each other, and soon our hearts were beating together in sync as if there were only one heart beating instead of two.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Shattered

“Some things we learned together, like love, and how to fall into it. Or maybe we didn't learn how, maybe we just fell, and landed wherever we landed. We did this, Charlie and I, all the while engaging each other like we were wondrous artifacts to be explored. He held on to my every word and I absorbed his every detail as though they were important pieces of history.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Back to Yesterday

“If you see her Tell her we’re ok Tell her she’s everything I am She’s everything I say If you see her Tell her I’ll make her proud Tell her I’m no longer lost I’m no longer under a cloud If you see her Tell her she’s still mine Tell her I’ll love her forever And one day we’ll be better than fine If you see her Tell her that even though we are apart Tell her I love her so And that she is still my heart”
― Pamela Sparkman, Stolen Breaths

“Sometimes all we need is a soft place to land when we fall." ~Maggie”
― Pamela Sparkman, Shattered

“I leaned back, making myself comfortable and smiled. "I like that."

"Like what?"

"That you call me Charlie. No one has ever called me that. I thought I would hate it if anyone ever did. I don't, not when you say it."

She looked disappointed.

"What?" I asked.

The corners of her mouth lifted into a semi-grin. "I was hoping you would hate it."

A laugh bubbled up inside of me so I let it out, sounding loud against the quiet backdrop.
"I kinda figured that. I think that's why I love it.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Back to Yesterday

“We didn’t need words to communicate. Our hands didn’t try to speak in sign. We spoke in a language that was as old as time itself. And on that night, in that tiny little woodshed, we burned together, and together we rose up into something made whole—into something made new, created out of fire and ash. And it was beautiful.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Reverend of Silence

“I came back.”
His heart swelled. “Why?”
She shook her head. “Because, I felt like you needed me. Did you? Need me?”
All he could do was look at her, wondering why it took so long for her to come into his life. “Yes,” he said. “I think I always have.”
― Pamela Sparkman, The Moon Shines Red

“Love transcends all obstacles in her path Insisting she finds her way Leaving her troubles behind Yearning to be loved someday”
― Pamela Sparkman, Stolen Breaths

“We were ghosts. Just shadowy, spiritless images of ourselves. And none of us knew where to find the light. So I did the only thing I knew to do. I got up and added another log to the fire. It was time to build it back up again.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Reverend of Silence

“Have you ever dreamed out loud?”

She looked at me through her eyelashes, confusion written on her face. “Huh?”

“Dreamed out loud. It’s…I dunno… like feeling you’re in a dream, only you’re wide awake?

“Where are you going with this?

After another minute passed, I managed to whisper, “I feel like I’m dreaming with my eyes open when I look at you.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Shattered

“Together, they stared upwards while the night wrapped around them like a blanket. Again, things were said between them, even though no words were spoken. Sometimes, the whispers of the heart spoke louder than the deepest voice.”
― Pamela Sparkman, The Moon Shines Red

“He took both of his arms and wrapped them around my body, pulling me into him in a tight embrace. He kissed the top of my head and let out a breath. My ear was to his chest and I could hear his heart racing. “Your heart is beating so fast,” I said, hugging him tightly. “I know. It started beating again when I saw you that day at the airport.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Stolen Breaths

“I may not have been a part of Bridgeport, but Bridgeport was a part of me. It was where I had grown up. It was where Noah and I had played together. It was where I’d met Sam. How could I not love a town that had brought me the best thing I’d ever known? Sam.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Reverend of Silence

“Setting the guitar down, I stood and took a step forward to close the gap she’d created. “You need to get used to it. I don’t want to be just someone to you. I want to be the only one. And I promise you, Maggie Malone, if you let me, I’ll earn all of the pieces of you before I take a single one.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Shattered

“Cooper Hubson, in all my life I'll never be able to thank God enough for you. You have taken the pieces of me that were broken and began fixing them one by one, and you did it with just your smile.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Stolen Breaths

“Time, it seemed, was a cruel albatross around the heart of those who loved and couldn’t have. Time always seemed to be saying . . . not yet . . . wait . . . wait . . . wait.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Reverend of Silence

“If I was your warmth and your refuge, you were my shining ray of light in an otherwise dark world.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Reverend of Silence

“You don’t know what it’s like to have your two greatest loves coupled together, filling your soul differently, yet completely and equally.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Back to Yesterday

“I didn’t think you would really do it.” She whispered.

“What? Kiss you?”

“Yeah,” she whispered back.

“I wasn’t going to, but you challenged me. I guess you could say you made me do it.”

“Is that what I am? A challenge?” she asked.

“You’re definitely a challenge, sweetheart. It’s a challenge just to keep my hands to myself whenever we’re in the same room.”
― Pamela Sparkman, Shattered

“First,” he said softly, “I would hold you…like this.” He moved in a fraction. “And I would memorize the color of your eyes, the slope of your nose, the shape of your mouth, and I would think… I am never going to be the same after this.”
― Pamela Sparkman, The Moon Shines Red