Only Love Can Hurt Like This Quotes
"I love being an architect, getting paid to design pieces of art that people live and work in."
"You’re not thinking about a change of career, are you? There seems to be a lot of that going on these days."
"Architectural jobs at cool practices aren’t exactly falling out of the sky at the moment."
"I always knew you’d grow up to do something creative."
"I’d forgotten all about it, but that’s no excuse. I’m sorry."
"You are welcome to stay for as long as you like."
"It’s going to take more than a simple sorry to make up for that and all the other mistakes I made when you were younger."
"He loves being back home, living near his brother and his mom and dad."
"I’m not about to throw that away anytime soon."
"I’m so taken aback by her apology that I feel dizzy."
"I’d give anything for you to be able to spend more time with us."
"You have no idea how stressed she used to get, worrying what you’d think of her."
"I feel like I should be home right now anyway."
"It’s not what I’m passionate about, but I’d step up if I had to."
"Why stop now?" He smirks and folds his arms across his chest, his biceps filling out the sleeves of his T-shirt.
"But I bet you don’t make a fool of yourself often," he concedes.
"Dad taught me," she replies, taking another shot because one went in.
"Doesn’t really matter if I can play, does it?" I reply shakily. "You do well enough for both of us."
"Of course you do. You’re an architect," he replies with a teasing grin.
"Those bastards are doing sneaky shots without us," I murmur.
"What’s ‘a can of whoop-ass’?" I ask him solemnly.
"I don’t know, maybe it’s only a line he crosses with his ex."
"First time saying grace, huh?" His gaze flicks toward me, an amused tilt to his lips.
"Sometimes, life really does give you peaches."
"I shouldn’t care. I know I shouldn’t care. But fuck it, I do."
"Hope is a powerful thing. Sometimes it's all we have."
"The beauty of music is that it lets you take flight to places you've never been."
"Love is not just a feeling; it's an action that shows our commitment to one another."
"Resilience is not about how you endure. It's about how you recharge."
"The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence."
"Who am I kidding? I’d probably still fancy him, even then."
"Sunlight is pouring in through the window onto the double bed, which is made up with a crisp white waffle bedspread."
"Do you want me to make you a coffee before I go?"
"I love Midland Arts and Antiques as much as Anders thought I would."
"I am so full of like for him in that moment."
"He’s still in love with Laurie. He told me that he’s nowhere close to letting her go."
"Because every night over the last week, after you’ve left, he’s gone inside to watch videos of Laurie on his phone."
"It’s guilt that binds him to her, not longing or love or anything else."
"One foot in front of the other, one day at a time."
"Every child should be told that they're beautiful by their parents."
"The fact that your dad offered to help or the fact that Jonas stepped away from the barbecue?"
"I feel heartsick at the thought of that person being anyone but him."
"I understand entirely why Kelly is so furious—she's defending her daughter because her poor daughter can't defend herself."
"It doesn't really matter what the rest of the world thinks, every child should be told that they're beautiful by their parents."
"They are something," he replies with awe, shaking his head.
"There are other customers waiting, you know," Bailey snaps, surreptitiously swiping at her own eyes.
"I didn’t know it was possible to love so fully and hurt so deeply at exactly the same time."
"My head is reeling when Jonas leaves me standing behind the barn."
"Sometimes I think I spend more of my time looking backward than forward," he says.
"You can still love Laurie in sickness and in health for the rest of your life," I say earnestly. "But love the memory of her."
"What did you think, the first time you saw me?"
"I want him to be happy, and hopefully, one day, I'll find happiness with the right person too."
"Life’s too short. You’ve got to be honest with yourself about the sort of life you want, the sort of person you’d like to spend it with."
"I tried texting Wren again, but got another Message not delivered response. I’m pretty sure she has blocked me and I don’t blame her, but the thought of it makes me feel as though I’m standing at the edge of a chasm, only a thin thread keeping me from falling in."
"We don’t want to see you wasting your life. You’re a good man. You’ve stuck by our daughter through thick and thin. We know what you’ve sacrificed for her. But we’ve lost sight of how much it’s hurting you. We want you to go out there and live now. We want you to let Laurie go."
"I’ve just got to make her see it, believe it, feel it too."
"I hope she lets me hold her. I hope she lets me make up for hurting her."
"Don’t get your panties in a wad, we’ve got it under control."
"I love you too. Oh no you don’t," he erupts darkly, his body tensing and his ears pricking up, and I hear it—the tractor.
"We simply promise to love and honor each other and to always be there, as long as we’re needed."