Portia Moore > Quotes

“These shoes look like they're straight out of 'The Wizard of Oz,' but since I'm like the tornado that blew you into Oz, I guess you can wear Dorothy's red slippers. And if I'm gone and seem lost, maybe you can do a little click and I'll find my way home.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“In the end, we’re all searching for what will make us sleep well at night, give us peace even when everything isn’t perfect.”
― Portia Moore, Almost Broken

“I’ve wrapped myself up in him, something that no woman should do with any man.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“–The Prince Charming myth is the other curse God created to punish Eve and every other woman for biting that stupid apple.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“Why did you come after me? Why did you bring me this?" I thrust my hand in his face showcasing our ring.
"Yeah, I brought it to you. You're my wife. Why the hell do you keep taking it off?”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“He’s the master of manipulation, the king of allure.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“The only place I’ve ever felt at home. She made my house a home, she’s home.”
― Portia Moore, Beautifully Broken

“I hate you sometimes,”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“I have a lot of confusion about his love for me, but what I have never been confused about is my love for him. I love Cal. That’s it. There’s been nothing I’ve been able to do to stop loving him yet. No matter how angry or how frustrated I get. He knows the exact moment, to do the exact thing to make me fall in love with him all over again.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“They broke my baby, Lauren, and made their own. I can’t forgive them for that. I can’t,”
― Portia Moore, Beautifully Broken

“I was caught before I even knew I was being hunted,”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“Animosity is a weapon, and it’s not used against the person you can’t forgive – it’s used against yourself.”
― Portia Moore, What Happens After

“As a parent you don’t stop loving your children when they don’t follow the plan you have for them, or go a little off course,”
― Portia Moore, Beautifully Broken

“True love, if you believe in what love really is, it can never be tainted. It’s always there. It’s not the diluter, it’s the absolver.”
― Portia Moore, He Lived Next Door

“I never really thought about being in love with a person. Movies romanticize everything. They make being in love seem sugar-coated, a roller coaster, surreal. I think love is sacrifice. True love is being with someone through the hard times, through sickness, through poverty.”
― Portia Moore, Almost Broken

“He’s thinking, which is always a good sign.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“What’s in the dark, will always come to light,”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“A guy is supposed to put you on cloud nine and help you forget about your problems.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“He lifts me up and carries me inside to our bed. This is what he does, after all. He’s the master of manipulation, the king of allure. He knows me inside and out—”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“care about and what’s important to me.” “Lauren, that’s not true. If it were, when Angie called”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“Love and hate crashing together in a never-ending battle that I fought within myself.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“How can you be friends with someone when you want them to love you? How do you pretend your feelings don’t exist or matter? I’m not that strong.”
― Portia Moore, Almost Broken

“Nothing is certain now. The bond between us, once so real—so tangible, I believed in it with every ounce of my being—is now in tatters. Whatever we had has been lost, our home void of warmth and love and filled with anger instead. We are participants in a war of words that continues to be recycled over and over again.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“I expected his lack of response, but it hurts all the same. I’m pretty sure he regards me more as his personal high-class escort than his wife.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“I don’t want to be a part of your past. I want to be the only person to touch you in ways that give you chills, to whisper things that make you turn red. I know there are a lot of things that you want to know about me that I haven’t been exactly open with you about. But know that I love you; I’ve been in love with you longer than I’ve admitted to myself.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“I have to let go. I have to let him go and believe that the future can take the place of my past.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“The bags around my eyes can carry groceries. I look like I haven’t slept in days. I”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“I’ve never wanted anything more than our marriage, Lauren. You’re the one thing that belongs to me. The only pure thing I have is us. I used to have a different reason for being. It came from a dark place. My motivation changed when I fell in love with you. You’re my strength and my weakness. You’re the reason I fight to be here.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“It’s human nature to want to believe things are always good.”
― Portia Moore, If I Break

“She’s not your daughter. She’s your sister.”
― Portia Moore, Beautifully Broken