Bella > Bella's Quotes

“She and I really are binary stars, stuck in each other’s orbit, drawn together by forces we can’t see or understand—but that we can feel.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“I want a wild love....I want this feeling I have with you where it hurts to breathe when you get too far away, where my skin itches uncontrollably when you look at me. Where thinking feels overrated because we both know nothing and no one will ever feel like this. Like us.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“You don’t tell a person you love them with the expectation they’ll say it back. You tell them because you want to. You tell them because it’s true.”
― Elsie Silver, Hopeless

“You were out there this whole time, and now I know you exist, and I can never go back. Wouldn’t want to if I could.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“It strikes me that perhaps I’m not an easy woman to love, but Theo does it so effortlessly that I feel like I could be. Like I deserve to be.”
― Elsie Silver, Reckless

“It means . . . I live you. Like I see you everywhere, you are in everything. Our connection is more than physical.”
― Elsie Silver, Reckless

“Because as much as I don’t need a knight in shining armor to defend my honor, I’m relieved I have one who feels compelled to do so.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“Please don’t cry. I fucking hate it when you cry. It’s like a bullet to my chest.” “Taken many bullets, have you?” My voice is weak, and I hate that. “No,” he husks, “but I would. For you, I would.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“I just remembered that he called me the morning after you two first got together. And do you know what he said to me?
He said, ‘Mom, I met her.’ And I said, ‘Who?’ He said, ‘The woman I’m going to marry one day.”
― Elsie Silver, Reckless

“I love your freckles,” he murmurs from behind me, the pad of his finger tracing lines across the expanse of my back. “They remind me of all the constellations. Like I could draw lines between them, and pictures would appear.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“That journal entry is fascinating, but all wrong. I was at home when you called that night. And I broke every speed limit to get to you.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“...when you love someone, and you share the mistakes they’ve made with people who don’t love them the way you do, you can’t expect those same people to forgive them the way you do either.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“You are not a burden. You are not a waste of time. You are very wanted. And anyone who makes you feel you’re anything less deserves Rhett Eaton’s fist to their face. Or yours. You can hit back too, you know? I’ll bail you out every fucking time.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“You know what I'm sick of, Summer?"
"What's that?"
"Having you think I'm out fucking everything that moves when I've looked at nothing and no one since the first day I laid eyes on you. I stepped into that godforsaken boardroom, and you practically demanded I become obsessed with you.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“Breathing is overrated. I’d rather be drowning in you.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Eyes

“Choosing each other. Finding each other. Showing up for each other. And everything about the moment is flawless.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“I’ve spent a lifetime thinking I don’t like talking. It turns out I just needed the right person to talk to.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Side

“If I could build you a boyfriend like a Build-A-Bear, he would come out as Ford Grant.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“I’m done pretending to be head over heels in love with you because I’m legitimately head over heels in love with you. And acting like I’m not tears me up.”
― Elsie Silver, Hopeless

“She’s the sun, the rest of us are just dumb rocks orbiting her.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“There’s a man who will do everything for you. And then there’s a man who is secure enough to realize there are things you need to do for yourself—who steps back and revels in watching you soar. That’s the man who’s your biggest fan.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Eyes

“Does love start off as obsession? Because that’s what I am. Obsessed with my wife.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Side

“Cade is the embodiment of actions speaking louder than words. He wasn’t about to fall all over himself apologizing for not making enough coffee for me. Instead, he just made more and left me a mug, knowing that it would make me feel good. And a Post-it note addressed to Red. Maybe I’m an idiot but it feels sweet. Coming from Cade, it is sweet.”
― Elsie Silver, Heartless

“Sometimes we seize the moment, and sometimes it seizes us.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“This is what you do when you love somebody. And I have every intention of loving you just as thoroughly as I know you love me. You just have to let me.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Side

“I love you, Sloane Winthrop. I always have. I love you so damn hard I don’t even know what to do with it. You’re my person. And I think I’m yours too.” “You have always been my person,” she chokes out. “I love you so much.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“I’m definitely in my country-boy era.”
― Elsie Silver, Heartless

“No, fancy face. Those”—he points at my face, finger flicking from side to side—“are wild eyes. The eyes of a woman who just chose fight over flight. Don’t smother that. Keep ‘em and you’ll come out on top. Trust me.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Eyes

“You don't love someone only when it's convenient or easy. You love them when it's fucking awful and the world is falling apart around you.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Eyes

“For all the ones who have felt crippled by the opinions of others. I hope you learn to love what you’re doing so completely that all those critical voices cease to matter. And until then, remember that thriving is winning. Go forth and thrive.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Eyes