Rock Bottom Quotes
"I thought that might have been the worst thing about losing someone, that moment between asleep and awake, when you had to remember and accept the loss again."
"Solitude was perhaps a necessary component when dealing with grief, but I could not deny this man anything."
"I meant the words when I said them, but life had other plans for us."
"Every misstep that led us down the path to our destruction was our own doing, but to this day, I still hated that guitar."
"I felt helpless to stop him. His demons were so very different from my own."
"She loved Tristan, and so she would get over this."
"You’ve got me. And I’m not going anywhere. Not ever."
"Opportunities like these don’t come often, and when they do, you have to grab them."
"He’d never admit it, because it was a pipe dream where he came from, but his ambitions were a hot burning thing, beyond his control."
"Knowing her, and remembering my childhood, it probably had."
"Being an enabler was deeply ingrained in me, thanks to her."
"I knew that her demons had won a long time ago. I still planned to put up a hell of a fight with mine."
"Any soul she'd had she'd lost before I had memories."
"I felt exposed and filthy in a way I hadn't experienced in years."
"It was a last resort, but having her address was a lead I couldn't ignore."
"I needed to get out of there. One glance and I knew that I did not want to be at this man's mercy."
"You're no different than me. What you did with that old man proves that."
"I ran out of there, not trusting for a second that he was really letting me go."
"I sat there, trembling, for a solid thirty minutes before I felt steady enough to drive."
"It had already been a shit of a day by the time I made it to Tristan's apartment."
"You might not want to go back there. I believe he said he wanted privacy…"
"I thought I could have slept for days after that delicious interlude."
"I'm leaning towards saying fuck this record deal. You're my whole life."
"I wouldn't make all these promises if I didn't intend to keep them."
"You don't know where those marks came from, you said. I must have grabbed you there yesterday. I did that to you."
"I don’t like your tone, and I refuse to talk about this right now."
"I wasn’t charged because I stopped the beating."
"She thinks I’m like her because of what I let that old man do to me. I’m not, though. I was just a kid, and I didn’t think I had a choice."
"A bullet to the chest couldn’t have hurt my heart more than the weak thread to her voice as she whispered those words."
"There’s not an ounce of dirt on you, sweetheart. You have the purest heart I’ve ever known."
"We lay on the front yard like silly teenagers, for minutes, for hours."
"The perfect, intensely trusting tranquility written on her face as she lay with her head on my shoulder."
"It was one of those slowed moments in time, where things became clear, and parts of the past were brought to rest."
"Addiction was hereditary, and it was in my blood, so I knew that I had to be more careful than most to avoid its trappings."
"Real trust was an elusive thing for me, given my track record with men, and Tristan’s track record with sex."
"I felt our distance so keenly in that moment, not just in miles but in intimacy."
"I missed you," I told her, moving on top of her.
"I sighed, knowing there was a short timer on how long I could keep my feelings to myself. There always had been."
"You and me, we're different. This is different. More."
"It's not the novelty of an act that makes a thing exciting, Danika, it's the feeling behind it."
"I'd keep you in bed for the rest of our lives, if there were any feasible way to do that."
"What I’m saying is, no one can make Danika more jealous than Nat, since Nat used to have Tristan’s ring on her finger."
"The fact that you're always late. And more and more, you don’t answer my calls."
"This right here, this is what I fucking live for. So good, Danika, so fucking good."
"It's a bit late for that now. I'm fucking stuck with him, thanks to this record deal."
"I love you too," I told him, kissing his neck, when we’d finished.
"If anyone harasses you about it, I’ll kick their ass, okay?"
"It means that, aside from you, my life is shit. So please, if you love me, do what you do, and make me forget that for a while."
"I was just thinking that a happy pregnant woman has it all. What could be better than that? Having a life growing inside of you, knowing that you’ll have this little soul to love for the rest of our days."
"Isn’t that a little backwards? Aren’t there a few steps we’ve missed before we start talking about babies?"
"Please don’t cry, sweetheart. If you cry, I’ll lose my shit. If you really love me, you won’t make me embarrass myself in front of strangers."
"You don’t get it at all. You’ve turned me into a psychotic jealous monster now. Better?"
"Seriously. I don’t know how a little thing like you did it, but you broke my dick."
"You know I own you now? It’s just hit me that you’re lawfully mine. It makes sense I’d want to test out my property, right?"
"Every one of my heartbeats is for you. Every breath, Tristan."
"You being mine is the best thing that’s ever happened to me."
"I’m not a confused little bi girl, Frankie. I haven’t been with a man since I was too young to know better."
"I only want you to touch me, but I want you to do it absolutely anywhere you like, in front of anyone you please."
"Well, now you’ve done it, my sweet. We can’t go back now. I’m keeping you."
"I needed her comfort more than I needed her sympathy."
"What a joy you are for me, Danika. A miracle."
"I can’t quite believe it. It’s wonderful. Best news I’ve ever had."
"This is our first baby, and we’re going to need you to be there for us, to answer our questions, to show us what to do when we’re clueless."
"We left my mother with a clean house, and a hopeful heart. All thanks to Danika."
"She was the one. If I’d ever had a doubt, I didn’t now. She was the one I’d be thinking about, longing for, until I took my last breath."
"There was something in her words that gave me hope, some inkling I could hold onto that she didn’t blame me for everything."
"It was the kind of love that only hit you once in your life."
"I’ve missed you every single day since you left."
"Some days I raged against it with every fiber of my being, but others…others I was as far gone as Tristan."
"Tragedy never took its full chunk out of you right away."
"No matter which way I turned that over in my brain, I was to blame."
"My mind focused, with morbid determination, on the things I could have done differently."
"This is all my fault," she told me. "I fell down in the shower that morning, then just went on with my day, thinking everything would be fine."
"What do you want from me?" "Everything!" I shouted, enraged, heartbroken. "Everything you promised, and everything I need."
"I lived for what if and if only, and I became who I thought Tristan needed me to be, rather than considering what I might need for myself."
"For the first time in my life, I began to fantasize about dying. Not ending my own life, necessarily, but about the peace of it, the tranquility."
"We all make our own choices, and Leticia’s was impulsive and permanent."
"My relationship with Leticia was brief but powerful. I felt like she loved me, no, I know she did, and it meant a lot to me."
"No one could say I didn’t fight for him. No one could say I didn’t lose."
"What was left of a woman when she gave a man everything? The answer was easy. Impossible to deny, even for me. Nothing."
"I was a survivor. And so, I had to try to move on from this."
"I drive better drunk, so you’re in good hands. Now go back to sleep."
"You’re going to wake up tomorrow feeling dirtier than you ever have before, and you won’t remember why."
"There was just no escaping his eyes for long."
"I’m sorry, man. Have to respect her wishes. She seems very resolute."
"She hit her head pretty hard, got a concussion."
"Her knee was crushed. She should be able to walk again, eventually, but she’ll have a substantial limp. She won’t be dancing anymore."
"I laid there, and felt as though my very soul seeped out of me with that loss."
"Life was so very cruel, but there could be no doubt that I loved that baby."
"I have many regrets, many bad things I must take credit for, but believe me when I say that the negative impact that all of my actions have had on your life is my biggest one."
"We aren’t good for each other. Can’t you see that? After all that’s happened, isn’t that finally clear?"
"It had been torture. But every coffin needed its last nail, and that meeting was ours."