After We Collided Quotes
"It feels infinite. Permanent. Like an organism that’s come to live within me, but also like a hole growing steadily larger."
"I can’t comprehend how my life came to this, how I ever got to this point."
"I would give anything to rewind my life to my first day of college; I would have taken my mother’s advice and changed rooms."
"You aren’t some conquest of mine—you’re everything to me! You’re my breath, my pain, my heart, my life!"
"The best part of all of this? It’s that you warned me, you said you would ruin me and I didn’t listen."
"You will never be happy. You will be alone for the rest of your life, and for that I feel sorry for you."
"You’ve always known who I really am! I’ve been me all along, you know that!"
"You don’t know what it’s been like the last few days for me. I can’t sleep, I can’t even function without you."
"I know we can work this out," he tells me. "I know you miss me, too,"
"You’re annoying when you’re drunk." "You’re annoying when you’re… everything."
"You know I’m not going to like hug you or some shit, right?"
"I don’t know… I always think these things. I just never have the balls to say them."
"It’s okay. I’m really sorry for waking you up. You’re the only girl I know who looks just as beautiful when she wakes up as she did—"
"Because you were just all over me and loved it, you dirty girl."
"I can’t even remember the last conversation we had where you didn’t curse me out, it’s been years. This is nice."
"I’ll drink what and why and how and when I want. Thank you."
"I know you want to, Hardin, I can feel how hard you are for me."
"I love you," I tell her again, but when she doesn’t say anything else, I soothe myself by deciding she’s already fallen asleep.
"I’m not a mind reader, Tessa. What are you confused about?"
"I can’t decide if I’m completely insane for even thinking about forgiving him, or if I’m doing what love dictates."
"It’s ironic that I’m running to Hardin despite everything he has done."
"I knew something was going on between the two of you."
"I’m just glad that I got to meet you, Tessa. You have no idea what it means to me as a mother to see my only child this way."
"I know how stupid I am for even entertaining the thought—he has done terrible things to me."
"I have to figure out what to do next, but memories of my father flood my mind, and I can’t concentrate on anything."
"I can’t help but think, what if he’s like your dad?"
"Sometimes you have to choose to let things go, to move on."
"I assume that since you said Mrs., you are talking about the mother, not Elizabeth, which means you are trying to call me obnoxious."
"A man makes one bad joke around here and he’s condemned."
"The delicious scent of coffee fills the apartment, and we find Trish standing in front of the stove flipping pancakes."
"I know you are angry and disappointed by my actions, and that kills me."
"You make me happy, Tess. You love me when you shouldn’t, and I need you."
"She’s teaching you, and that makes me so happy."
"I can’t promise that I won’t hurt you again, but I can swear that I will love you until the day that I die."
"I know that I’m a shitty person, I know that. I have done so much shit, but Tessa can’t leave me."
"I would pick fights with people all the time for fun."
"I don’t blame her. I hadn’t realized that I was crying until the warm tears hit my chest."
"Move," Hardin snaps at Landon and takes his place next to me.
"I’m fine," I repeat and move away from his touch once I’m upright.
"I’m sorry about all of this," I tell Ken as I follow Hardin.
"I want to be happy, Hardin, and forgiving your father makes it much easier for me to be happy."
"I just can’t believe you put up with my shit," he says.
"Are you going to ask your father if we can stop by today?" I ask him and take a seat next to him.
"I don’t know, I don’t have any more room on my arms, and now my stomach, so I guess I’ll stop when there isn’t any room."
"We both sigh and her eyes roll back, nearly making me come on the spot."
"Next time will be slow, baby, but this time we only have a few minutes left. Okay?"
"No, I don’t want her to be my wife," I say slowly but clearly.
"I would rather do that than continue to be away from her."
"Not as good of company as you." He kisses my cheek.
"She’s pretty," he whispers into cupped hands.
"You owe me for this shit, Tess." Hardin groans.
"I’m not afraid of you," he says through his teeth.
"I would have never let you go in the first place."
"I have to be strong and not allow pain to push me or pull me into anything."
"You must think I’m stupid enough to believe anything."
"I can take care of her the way she should have been taken care of her entire life."
"I've missed you so much. I've been sick, literally, without you. I can't eat, sleep, or even breathe."
"You're too good for me, and I fucking know it. But please, Tessa, I'll do anything. I can't go through another day like this."
"Just because he can't love you the way you want him to doesn't mean he doesn't love you with everything he has."
"We just have to learn to talk to each other without fighting every time."
"I don't know how to love anyone other than myself, Tess. I'm trying as hard as I can."
"I know I always fuck everything up and I know I can't treat you the way that I have been. I just love you so much that it overwhelms me."
"You just have to prove to her that you'll change for her; you have to treat her the way she deserves to be treated and give her the space she needs."
"It's not supposed to be easy with us. We are who we are, but it won't always be this hard."
"I know I keep breaking your heart, but please... please let me fix it. I'll put it back together and I won't dare to break it again."
"Everything that’s happening with Zed is totally different."
"I hate when my thoughts go back to that time."
"I’m not exactly happy, but not miserable either."
"Landon and I wait for the crosswalk light to change."
"I’m starving, I didn’t have a chance to eat breakfast this morning."
"At first? He tilts his head and licks his lips."
"He hasn’t been hanging out with Jace. He was in England."
"Anything’s possible when science is involved."
"You deserve to be with someone who makes you glow, not who burns out your light."
"I can’t help it. I’m so used to being with her."
"I’m not going to fall . . . but sure, I’ll get gloves if you insist."
"I sort of like the way I look without them, like I’m not hiding anymore, you know?"
"I was wondering about Seattle, if there’s any chance that I could transfer there?"
"We can’t seem to get our shit together, can we?"
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"To be fond of dancing was a certain step toward falling in love."
"Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony."
"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
"How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."
"You have bewitched me, body and soul."