Garnet Flats Quotes
"Hopefully, Rachel would back off after my residency was over."
"I was just the girl who’d grown up in this small Montana town and who’d loved it enough to move home after medical school."
"Why hadn’t I dried my hair? Why hadn’t I dressed in anything else?"
"It was empty, so I let out a groan as I spun the combination on my lock and ripped the door open."
"My dream was to work at Quincy Memorial. This was just as much my hospital as it was hers."
"Most of the pushback I got was from men, especially older men."
"Is she old enough to be a doctor? Are you sure she knows what she’s doing?"
"I blew out the breath I’d been holding, but my heart stayed stuck in my throat."
"I sucked in a breath and held it as I inched through the entryway, my footsteps silent."
"It wasn’t until I was inside the house, sagging against the kitchen counter with a glass of wine, that I let myself breathe."
"How many times had I traced the bump in the middle of his nose with my fingertip?"
"How many nights had I drowned in those deep, ocean-blue eyes?"
"It’s a little cold for a picnic. Gonna let me in?"
"It would never be just dinner. Not with Foster."
"Everything was at stake. My life. My future."
"The damn thing was probably broken. Another item to be fixed. Another day."
"Cloud gray wasn’t exactly original for a wall color but it would brighten up the space."
"Maybe if I’d been less concerned with those trophies, with the money they represented, I wouldn’t have gotten so fucking greedy."
"Why hadn’t I just stayed poor? At least without the money, I would have been my own man."
"Guilt had been tormenting me for seven damn years and its claws were as sharp as ever."
"I know I hurt her. Sorry isn’t enough. But I’ll say it. Over and over and over. Until she knows I mean it."
"A memory came rushing back, of the two of us at this small hole-in-the-wall pizzeria in Vegas."
"She was in her blue scrubs with a white lab coat over the top. In one hand, she held a fry. In the other, a chicken tender."
"That kiss was not from two people who are over."
"I’d just picked up a gallon of Kilz, ready to prime the orange wall, when the door opened at my back."
"I waited until his car door slammed and the sound of his engine disappeared before striding into the apartment and sweeping up my keys from the counter."
"I spent my adult life in gyms and fitness centers. The best were those that you couldn’t ignore."
"You’re brilliant. You’re an incredible doctor and you help so many people. But you suck at letting anyone help you. Would it be so hard to not be perfect?"
"Then maybe you can get some closure. He wants to explain. What’s the harm in letting him try?"
"You didn’t bother telling your family about me. We were together for a year. Admit it. You were worried about what Daddy would say when you brought home a guy like me."
"I loved you for 437 days. One year, two months and eleven days."
"Your dreams were my dreams, Tally. I lost them when I lost you."
"I’m so fucking sorry. I made the wrong choice."
"We were happy. I thought we were happy. Weren’t we?"
"I was the woman who'd always loved his wild storm."
"What if we forgot the past? What if we forgot the world, just for tonight?"
"Everyone has apologies and explanations. I'm so sick of explanations that come seven years too late."
"Foster Madden had a presence as powerful as a thunderclap."
"The only person who'd insisted on calling me Dr. Eden had been Foster. A man who knew me intimately."
"God, that kiss. A woman could survive on a kiss like that each day."
"The high today was forecasted to be three. Three fucking degrees above zero."
"She hadn’t complained about the gym but she hadn’t complimented it either."
"I waited a long time for you, love. I’ll wait as long as you need."
"You smell good." Talia leaned in and pressed her nose to the sleeve of my shirt. "Did you shower?"
"We can probably get out of your hair tomorrow," I said, holding my breath.
"I envied her that. What I wouldn't give to go back to the beginning, when Talia and I were strangers, and experience the magic of falling in love with her all over again."
"I wanted more kids. I wanted to watch Talia grow with our child. I wanted a life of us chasing them around and then, once they were asleep, sliding into bed beside her until the end of my days."
"For all his faults, my dad is always a gentleman."
"I know you can zip up your own coat. Open your own doors. But it's a way for me to give back to you just a fraction of what you give to me."
"I’ll give you seventy." If that meant I’d have to live until 101, I’d do everything in my power to give her that time.
"Breathe, love." I needed her to stop crying. I needed her to breathe.
"I’m not people. I’m the man who loves you. Tear stained or not."
"Drop your shield, love. Put your hands down. All the way."
"Will you break my heart again?" "Never." I’d die first.
"It’s easy to doubt yourself after the nights when people die."
"I’m scared." "Voice your fears. Let’s put them out there. Face them, together."
"Won’t stop until every dream of mine has come true."