Layla Quotes
"How can I have hope for a way out of this when things have gotten so out of control?"
"This severely outdated machine is going to record every word I’m about to say."
"I’m speaking to a detective I met online while my girlfriend is upstairs, losing her damn mind."
"Every sound coming from upstairs makes me flinch."
"The underrated, invisible instrument that’s usually held by the invisible member of the band."
"If people knew how little was required of me in this life, I wouldn’t be respected."
"It’s been proven that people who read live longer."
"I didn’t find a single thing about her annoying."
"There’s nothing better than knowing this girl anticipates my mouth on hers."
"I immediately press my mouth to hers, wanting to swallow those words."
"Concern might be the only difference between liking someone and loving someone."
"There’s no better feeling than being loved for who you are rather than for what you’re worth."
"Sometimes I wonder what she thinks about when she touches it."
"It’s like someone let all the air back into my life when I had no idea I was even suffocating."
"We make love a lot, but it’s different than it was before. In those first couple of months together, we were a combination of everything that makes sex good."
"My mother laughs because she can tell when I’m full of shit. But she also knows I’ll tell her what I feel like telling her when I feel like telling her."
"Meek. Gentle. Just the kind of guy I’d want for my mother."
"I don’t not believe in them, but I don’t know that I’ve ever had an experience that would make me believe in them."
"I’d feel nothing if you punched me in the heart. I’d feel even less if you stabbed me with a knife. But I didn’t fall out of love with you. I fell out of love with life."
"I don’t believe in ghosts. This is stupid. Fucking stupid."
"When there’s literally nothing I can do or look forward to... not even meals or naps... what importance is time?"
"Your fault for showing him where the liquor was."
"No, stay. I never get to see you anymore, and I can’t sleep."
"I’m exhausted. And still have that damn headache."
"I can’t slip out of her without her being asleep first. I don’t want her to get scared."
"I feel like I’m going to wake up tomorrow and laugh at how insane this dream was."
"She thinks you’re evil and that she’s going crazy."
"But you’ve developed a relationship with Willow. Enough of one that you would put Layla at risk in order to help Willow."
"I feel like I sometimes don’t appreciate the severity of her injuries."
"I love you, Layla. That love doesn’t fluctuate with numbers on a scale."
"What if I’m meant to be something else besides a musician?"
"Falling in love with her was weightless, like air was breezing through my bones."
"Falling out of love is fucking heavy, like my lungs are carved from iron."
"Sometimes, when I look at Layla, I wish she were Willow."
"Never communicate with someone through a cell phone if you’re hoping to stay anonymous."
"Nothing good has come from her crossing into this realm."
"A person doesn’t need it to be written down in order to know the difference between right and wrong."
"It’s only caused Layla to stress about her fatigue."
"I’ve seen all the movies. Patrick Swayze had to die twice in that movie. Twice!"
"They’re just movies, Willow. Written by people in Hollywood who get paid to use their imagination."
"Every ghost is a ghost because something went wrong."
"I don’t know why I’m kissing her like someone might steal this moment from us."
"This is the moment I’ll likely regret the most."
"Maybe it’s better if she assumes she’s going crazy. The truth would be too hard for her to accept."
"Something is happening to us, Leeds. You’re going crazy. Or maybe it’s me, I don’t know, but it’s this house and we need to get out. Please."
"No one wants to be locked up _any_where, Leeds."
"You’re going to have to lock her in the bedroom."
"I’d rather Layla not be in and out of consciousness like this. It’s driving her mad, but I’m not sure I can let her go at this point."
"Ghosts are one thing. But this? This is something you’d see in a movie."
"I may not have a solution. I don’t know how I’m going to keep her in my arms forever, but for right now, I have her. And I’m making damn sure she never spends another night alone in this house again."
"Relax, we can worry about the details after we wake up."
"We found each other once—when we met. Then we found each other again—after she died."
"She wraps herself tightly around me as we make love."
"Every time I have to leave my own body, it’s like a brand-new heartbreak."
"You won’t be ending Sable’s life, Leeds. You’ll be saving mine."
"We’re bound together for eternity, and if I don’t get this right—if I lose her—that tether will feel like a noose tightening around my heart until it stops."
"We’re living with this huge secret we can’t share with anyone."
"Layla is my soul mate in every realm of life."