Forever, Interrupted Quotes
"I'm not sure what I expect to find, but I look up and down the street for any sign of him."
"He’s not here? I think. He was in that ambulance?"
"I hate them for being able to drink coffee at a time like this."
"I can hear my pulse, but I can't focus on what the policeman is saying."
"I just keep flailing and hitting him. I want to slap him. I want to kick him. I want to make him hurt like I do."
"I sit back down in the chair, dead inside."
"I walk into the kitchen as Ana is getting me a glass of water. I walk right past her with the pillow in my hand and I grab a trash bag, shoving the pillow into it."
"I’ve been wiping snot on my sleeves and neckline."
"He’s still here in the sheets. I grab his pillow from his side of the bed and I smell it, choking on my own tears."
"The world didn’t put away his shoes sitting in the middle of the floor."
"I sit on the couch, turned on the television, and fell asleep."
"Ana calls a few hours later asking what I was doing."
"I’m on a daylong date. It’s going really well so I’ll call you tomorrow."
"I’m not sure how I didn’t. But I didn’t."
"I saw him take the ticket off his windshield and laugh."
"My heart starts beating so quickly it hurts in my chest."
"The man in the red tie comes in and says we need to clear some things up and Ben’s body needs to be moved."
"I don’t want anyone to make me feel better."
"In situations like this, where there is a question of who is the next of kin, I have to go by official documents."
"That’s the body that held me when I cried, the body that grabbed my left hand as it drove us to the movies."
"I have to protect Ben’s wishes. I have to protect the body that did so much to protect me."
"I loved holding books in my hands. I loved smelling their pages."
"He was a man of culture, a man of great kindness and personality."
"But I thought if I got a really good yarn to her liking, I could convince her to spend a few minutes with me."
"I’m nervous. Why are you nervous? This sounds amazing."
"I don’t want to call it a victory but it doesn’t. So what do I need to do?"
"If you knew the way I think about you and the way I think about her, this would not be a big deal."
"I’m weird for loving you? To love parts of you, I meant."
"I made up the whole five-week thing because I was afraid I’d tell you I loved you too soon and you wouldn’t say it back and I’d be embarrassed, and now here I am, I waited all these days to tell you and I still told you too soon and you didn’t say it back and I’m embarrassed."
"I love you too. Probably before you did. I’ve been waiting to say it all month, practically."
"I just want you all to know that at the end of his life, he had someone who loved him deeply and purely."
"We can’t afford it. We don’t have a lot of time. We don’t have the resources. But you bet your fucking ass that if you’re pregnant, we will figure out a way to make it work and we’ll look back on it and say that you losing that NuvaRing was the smartest thing we ever did."
"I’ve just learned to impersonate the living."
"You’re the only person I have left to be there for."
"Ana is very understanding. She’s the only person that can really get a glimpse of this new life I lead."
"I am a third wheel. You try being a widow and a third wheel. You will never feel more alone."
"Everyone may tiptoe around you, myself included, but at some point someone needs to remind you that you lost something you only had for six months."
"It doesn’t matter how long I knew him. I loved him. I still love him."
"Love is love is love. When you lose it, it feels like the shittiest disaster in the world."
"You don’t need to have a reason for everything in life. Sometimes things just happen."
"I needed to be there for him as much as I needed him to be there for me."
"He loved me. He cared about me a lot and I didn’t understand."
"I think I was afraid that you’d tell him how ridiculous we were being and he would listen to you."
"I want to be loved by someone who loves me so much he can’t think straight."
"I am ready to risk everything for you. And you are not ready to do it for me."
"I am the man to do that for you. I just don’t know how I derailed so quickly from showing you that."
"It felt so real. It felt so... I wanted to belong to something, belong to someone, you know?"
"My own parents don’t seem to think very much of me, and I thought, if you met me before... I thought you wouldn’t like me."
"It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It just... ah. You couldn’t have waited? You couldn’t have given me a chance?"
"I have been thinking for months that my son never even wanted me at his wedding, and now you’re telling me he did and you stopped him."
"Thank you for telling me that last night. It makes me feel better to know that Ben had the inclination to tell me. Even if he didn’t actually do it."
"He loved you enough to marry you the way he did. What mother doesn’t want that for her son?"
"I don’t believe in heaven, Elsie. I want to believe so bad. I want to think of him happy, in a better place. But I don’t believe in a better place."
"We could talk to him if you want. What does it hurt, right? It doesn’t hurt anything to try, and who knows? Maybe it will feel good."
"That is what true love is. True love is saying to someone 'Forget about us. We will be okay,' when it might not even be true, when the last thing you want is to be forgotten."
"I was Ben Ross’s wife. No one can take that away from me."
"You are my best friend, my lover, my partner. And I promise that I will spend the rest of my life taking care of you, the way you deserve to be taken care of."
"No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on."
"What’s the rush, honey? We have all the time in the world."