Stayed Quotes

“I invited him over and he stayed forever. I feed him all my bread, the old peppers turned to mush & fluorescent mold, the chicken thighs unthawed & boneless. He ask for more so I give him my left leg. He ask for more & I give him my lungs & lips. More still, and there goes my bladder. He eats it all, all of me, eats the whole damn house, & I live forever in him or maybe it's the other way around. I swallowed. I swallowed him whole & didn't even notice him thrashing inside me.”
― Danez Smith

“Thorn gazed back and forth between the two of us. "You could have left me behind, but you stayed. I won't forget that.”
― Patrick Carman, Into the Mist

“Morpheus puts an arm around me. “You’re all right, blossom,” he says, his mouth at my ear. “Can you drive?”
I nod and sniffle.
“Good.” He scoots back to his seat, then grabs my chin to force me to look at him. “Next time, I expect you to figure a way out. A netherling way.”
My tears gather around his hand, smudging his fingers with makeup.
“You didn’t leave me,” I utter in disbelief. “I thought you would leave me.”
He releases my face and looks out the opposite window while rubbing his hand on his jeans to wipe off my mascara. “Nonsense. I stayed for the car.” ”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

“No, I’m not running. Cowards run, and I’m not a coward. A coward would have stayed behind. A coward would have waited for Orrian, accepted him and the fate already chosen.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Broken Throne

“He never should have left the island. He’d been there with Diana and Penny. He could have tossed Penny off a cliff and been fine on the island. Decent food, a beautiful mansion, electricity, and a soft bed with Diana in it.
What had he been thinking, leaving the island?
He missed Diana busting him. He missed her snarky voice. He missed her eye rolls and that skeptical look she had where she’d half close her eyes and look at him like he was too dumb to merit her full attention. He’d have killed, or at least injured, anyone else who treated him like that. But she wasn’t anyone else.
He missed her hair. Her neck. Her breasts.
She understood him. She loved him, in her own way. And if he had listened to her, he’d still be on the island. Somehow he would have found some fuel to keep the lights on there. Probably. And the food would have run out and then they’d have starved, but hey, this was the FAYZ, where all you could really hope to do was delay the pain.”
― Michael Grant, Light

“With every second in the lift the temperature plummets. I’m beginning to think I should have stayed where I was.”
― David Chitty, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“During COVID-19, smart people stayed home and waited for ‘Herd Immunity’ to establish in the general population.”
― Steven Magee

“Had I stayed in Florida, I may have died in hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“If I had stayed working in Florida, there is a high probability I would have died in hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“I have stayed at the summit cabin of the Mauna Loa volcano.”
― Steven Magee

“My first twenty-nine years of life I stayed local. By age thirty-one I was living on the opposite side the world!”
― Steven Magee

“Cassian's warmth seeped into her side, his wings rustling near her back.

She let that warmth, the rustle anchor her.

He had come to save her from her nightmare, had stayed with her while she slept. Had guarded and fought for her. He would let no harm come to her now.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Like many men, I stayed in an unfaithful relationship for far too long to try and make it work for the child.”
― Steven Magee

“I wish we could have stayed there,' Preston whispered into her hair. 'Forever- impossibly. I'm sorry for saying all that inane nonsense about things only mattering because they don't last. That was hubris, I think. I don't want to die here.' I want-”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning