Beth Mayfield > Beth's Quotes

“I want more for myself, and I want to give you so much fucking more. So, think of what you’re asking me because I know exactly what I’m asking of you,” his voice cracks with emotion. “This is me fighting dirty for us both, so please just admit it so I can give you the best parts of me, because I want every fucking part of you.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“I want you to remember this moment, right now, right here, just you and me in a fucking SUV, taking a drive to nowhere. Promise me you’ll remember this.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“More than anything, I want to cling to his star as it burns the brightest – if only to be with him for a little longer. If what Easton said is true, and we live in echoes of defining moments, I want to remain in this one for as long as I possibly can.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“That’s the thing, Beauty. With me, you rarely have to say a word.” “You keep calling me that.” “Yeah, well, it’s a large part of the reason I drove to Austin to collect the girl I met. Because that’s all I see when she reveals herself to me.” He runs a gentle thumb across my lower lip. “Raw. Fucking. Beauty.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Forgive me for being blind to the fact that your love was bottomless, and I’ll forgive fate and the hard road we had to travel.
You are my destination, my life. I don’t need anything else.
Take those steps toward me today and put your hand in mine, and with a stringing soul, I promise never to get us lost again.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“I hate so much that Easton Crowne is the most beautiful secret I’ll ever have and will forever be the one I’m forced to keep.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“My full being lights up with understanding as he continues to play, entirely in his element as a level of certainty takes over me.
Easton Crowne is not some budding star. He’s a supernova.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Intelligent men don’t let life-changing women pass them by without trying to grasp onto them with both hands. I don’t need endless months to figure out you’re that woman for me.”
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“What I do want is standing in front of me, and the idea of letting her walk away from me for a second time is fucking eating me alive.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Our souls clicked seamlessly together before our bodies ever aligned, and it can no longer be denied or undone.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“This isn’t a game,” I whisper hoarsely. He sobers, pulling back slightly so I can clearly see the look in his eyes. “No, it’s not. You punched a hole in my goddamned chest in Seattle, only to leave me in the dark to try and figure out how to fill it.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“There’s nothing to compare this feeling to, and that’s why it’s the meaning of life. Love is purpose, belonging, and the very definition of living.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“You just fucking fell out of the sky, didn’t you?”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Natalie,” he murmurs, pulling my chin by his fingers back toward him. “I really just want to talk to you, so please don’t force me to play dirty because I have time to kill between gigs, and if you don’t get,” he bites his lip, “your perfect ass in my van, I’m going to bend you over Monday morning and bite it right in front of your daddy. Bet.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“I spent the first few days with his earbuds in, immersed in sensory overload. I finally had to tuck them away in my desk, having decided anyone who listens to music while emotionally compromised is a masochist. It’s utter agony knowing my mind now associates certain songs with a man forever trapped in a place and time I don’t want to outlive.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“I wasn’t expecting--”
“Me neither,” he fires back, “but I refuse to fucking deny whatever is happening here. You know I won’t.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Easton properly kissed me, fucked me, and I’m certain—if we gave each other a chance—he might have been the one to properly love me.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“I can’t fall for you, Easton,” she whispers hoarsely. “I’ll lose everything I’ve worked for…my whole life is in Austin, my future.”
“You’re already mine,” I declare, knowing that it’s the truth for us both.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“It physically fucking hurt me when you slammed the door on me.”
“It hurt me, too. But please understand, I still can’t do this with you.”
“You can do this with me, but you won’t. There’s a difference, and I would drop it, but I know how you feel about me. You don’t want this limited to friendship any more than I do.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Admit that you want this to happen just as badly as I do.”
“It can’t happen.”
“It already has, and you know it.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“We don’t seem to agree on much lately.”
“And we won’t when you fight me on what feels like mine.”
“I want that part of it to be true. It feels true.”
“It is, Beauty … I’m making fucking sure of it.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“She’s under my skin, fueling my days, lightning in my veins. I’m already gone.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“I’ve never in my life felt anything like it – this intimacy, this feeling of belonging to someone so completely.
This can’t be bought or bottled.
It can’t be replicated, duplicated, or imitated.
Being with Easton in any capacity is like trying to cling to a shooting star, and somewhere inside, I know that if I don’t relish this time with him, I’ll miss it as he burns his brightest.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“A rock star he may now be, but for me, he was first a man who reached in with a gentle soul and discovered some of my veiled truths before forcing me to acknowledge parts of who I am – and what I want. I man who made me feel important at a time when I questioned my direction and everything else I thought I knew. A man who has since freed me to be that woman, all the while addicting me to new needs. Needs he himself sparked and created before gifting me with the type of love I dreamed of. The love I hoped to experience for myself.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“The most potent aspect of all is that he helped blueprint our love, just as my heart conjured it.
It has nothing to do with anyone else, despite how it happened.
This love story is ours and ours alone.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Marry me because we’re the rare, lucky ones who managed to find something together so many others don’t have – it would feel criminal not to.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Your dreams don’t and won’t come second to mine. I want to be the man that stands beside you or behind you when you need me to. I can and will be there for you when it matters most to you.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Don’t belittle what we have to justify your attempt to control what you don’t want happening. It happened. It’s still happening.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“It’s up to us. It’s our fucking choice.”
“I know.”
“Please don’t let go.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“With sleeves rolled up a few inches on his forearms, it’s easy to surmise both arms are covered in ink. What appears to be bold black feather tips peak along the side of his neck. He’s the gasp-worthy blond in contrast to Easton’s breath-stealing tall, dark, and strikingly handsome.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Our parents’ story isn’t ours. But in one major way it is - because like theirs, our love is timeless.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse