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“We just flowed so easily. He made me feel so easy. Made me feel at ease.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Abby touched her palm to my cheek. "You know what, Mr. Maddox?"
"What, baby?"
Her expression turned serious.
"In another life, I could love you."
I watched her for a moment, staring into her glassed over eyes. She was drunk, but just for a moment it didn't seem wrong to pretend that she meant it.
"I might love you in this one.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“But that's the problem with drawing lines in the sand. When you're not looking, a wave, aa wind or a petulant child can easily wash them away.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“I saw him first, but it didn’t matter. Because he saw her.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Maybe it was never the sun, maybe that was just him”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Morning, sunshine." He is sunshine.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“It took too long for me to realize I’d dropped that beautiful bottle of whiskey. Too long to realize I’d broken it. By the time I figured it out, too long turned to too late, and I remembered all-too-well the other way Whiskey can burn.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“She stole my breath away. But I would never be the thief of her happiness”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“The way I feel about you . . . it’s crazy.”
“You got the crazy part right,” she snapped, pulling away from me.
“I practiced this in my head the whole time we were on the bike, so just hear me out.”
“Travis—”
“I know we’re fucked-up, all right? I’m impulsive and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then you need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don’t deserve you . . . but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I’ve loved anyone or anything, ever. When you’re around, I don’t need booze or money or the fighting or the one-night stands . . . all I need is you. You’re all I think about. You’re all I dream about. You’re all I want.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“I lost you three years ago, I told myself I’d never let that happen again. It’s important to me to be with you, B. But I can’t be if you don’t let me.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“A toast” I yelled, climbing onto a chair. On my way to the top, I stole someone’s beer and held it out in front of me. “To douche bags!” I said gesturing to Brad. “And to girls that break your heart.” I bowed to Abby. My throat tightened. “And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her. ”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“I was water, he was whiskey, and I couldn’t dilute him — not now that I knew he loved me enough to let me. I needed to be stronger, to be ice the next time I melted with him.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I realize it's over. Knowing that when I let go, we let go. We choose to breathe. the ember is out. It's not just ash.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Because of what I do remember, I'm heartbroken, and what I don't, I never want to”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“But it was the epilogues we both wrote where we had happily ever afters. it just wasn't singular; we didn't share one. We had happily ever afters, apart”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Thinking back on it now, I loved the way it felt that night. My heart was broken — completely, utterly shattered — and I liked the way that pain felt. It reminded me I was alive, filled me with hope that what we had was real — even if it had technically never truly existed.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“We may mean them in the moment the words leave our lips, but as time goes on, good intentions get rubbed raw by failed expectations.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Let me know which stars you prefer. The ones above you, or the ones I make you see.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“The feeling of her skin on my lips is gone faster than I can commit it to memory”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“One more weekend with Whiskey, and then I’d have to let him go.For good.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Baby, you rule the fucking kingdom, and I will gladly bow to you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“I loved the way it felt that night. My heart was broken — completely, utterly shattered — and I liked the way that pain felt. It reminded me I was alive, filled me with hope that what we had was real — even if it had technically never truly existed.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“If it’s real, then I’ve chased you across time and space, and you’ve never been able to get away.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“What have you been drinking, anyway?”

“Whiskey,” he answered easily, and a short laugh escaped my lips.

“Of course. I should have guessed.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

I shrugged, using a spoon to break up a large ice chunk before replacing the top on the blender and turning it on again. “Just makes sense. You’re practically whiskey on legs, anyway. The color of your hair, your eyes, the way you smell — it’s like your spirit drink.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“My body is just a vessel that my soul inhabits, attached to a shell that it'll one day leave. And when that day comes, I won’t care to let that shell go. I carry my body around because I have to, not because it's a choice. But when I possess something meaningful, I’m choosing to hold on to it. Carrying something meaningful in my skin is effortless but holding onto something that I could lose—that takes devotion.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Words don’t get written from a heart that’s never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Love is an enigma, and it's redefined every time someone says it.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“And just like that, I’d taken my first shot. I didn’t tell Jamie it was my first one, I didn’t think I needed to. I wanted to hate it, to detest it, to grimace and wipe my mouth with the back of my hand and reach for a chaser. But we set the glasses back on the counter slowly, our fingers brushing, and Jamie’s eyes were on my lips where leftover whiskey remained. My tongue traced the liquid, and he inhaled stiffly, eyes snapping up to mine.

Cat, meet mouse.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I’ll have her because she’s the first thing that made me feel something good in so long, and I’ve become obsessed with keeping it. I don’t have very many something goods in my life, and I don’t care if it makes me selfish for wanting to hold on to it.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“It was heaven. It was hell. It was wrong and right and I wished I'd never started yet I never wanted to stop.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey