Drive Quotes
"Breathe. Breathe. This is in the bag, Stella. You can do this, so do it."
"Electricity shot through my veins and seeped through every pore, reminding me that this was it."
"Despite the universe he’s constructed with storytelling lyrics, he’s always left it up to us to decipher his truth from his fiction."
"With one hundred and eighty million records sold, he still holds his title as heavyweight and remains a household staple for his die-hard fans, collecting an army of new followers over the past two decades."
"The simplicity of our surroundings in his home studio was shocking, to say the least."
"But above all, remember it’s the music that matters most."
"Love doesn’t die, even when you stop feeding it. There is no expiration date on the ache of missing someone you shared your heart, life, and body with."
"Their memories were just as vivid, just as painful. They were just better at letting go."
"I don’t want to pull an ‘I’ll wait.’ I don’t have the patience for that hat trick. Help me out here?"
"Now that I have plenty of. But I’ll just have to go with personality."
"Honesty will get you everywhere, especially as a journalist."
"I call shit like I see it. Sugarcoating doesn’t help anyone, and it’s bad reporting."
"Things will get better, Reid, believe me. Okay?"
"You’re like a screaming neon sign. Everybody notices you."
"And even though the dark street recommended we remain eerily quiet, I couldn’t stop asking questions."
"Oh, yes, me. My parents couldn’t afford drums. It was the only way for me to learn and play."
"That’s the thing about music: don’t take your back up for granted. You could have Don fucking Henley playing for you."
"There were perks to being David and Courtney Crowne’s kid. No curfew, no rules, and no punishment. We got along just fine."
"It seemed she came back to us a little more guarded, a little less carefree."
"Some people can only take so many punches. I knew life wasn’t as cut and dried as I thought it was, but I hoped I never hit my knees."
"My mother spent a solid year once getting drunk on White Russians after she’d given birth to my brother, Pete. He came out without having taken a single breath."
"They fed me, they put a roof over my head. Hell, my father managed to keep his job for twenty years on a fifth of gin a day. That’s a feat."
"I’ve heard your band. They wouldn’t keep you if you couldn’t play."
"I got good at a lot of things in high school, little sister."
"No curfew, no rules, and no punishment. We got along just fine."
"Music was where Reid Crowne’s happiness lay, and that smile told me he had already found his something to look forward to."
"It’s the best kind of love song. He knows her so intimately, no one else can be to her what he can."
"Optimism gave way as I shook off the doubts about my future. It was all up to me."
"We’re both victims of circumstance, aren’t we?"
"Everyone, at some point in their life, breathes and grieves through song, but for me, it was daily therapy."
"Use your words, I promise you they are much better weapons. But be careful with them because bruises heal."
"Music was my touchstone, my place of worship. If I went without it too long, I felt an addict’s itch."
"Trying to tamp down my elation, I scoured his living room, and in the far corner next to the patio door was a stack of at least a hundred spiral notebooks. Most of them looked worn."
"Welcome to adulthood. It fucking sucks here."
"Because she loves me, but she thinks I’m a piece of shit, Stella."
"Believe me, not her. Not what goes on inside that head of yours. Believe me."
"You aren’t who you were yesterday or the day before. Believe that. You are not your circumstances."
"Love and rock ‘n’ roll love stories aren’t for the faint of heart."
"This whole situation is screwed. It’s like I can’t get a break."
"You irritate the shit out of me, you know that? So full of questions, and no answers."
"You’re the band nerd who grew up to be a rock star. This is just the in between."
"We aren’t quite Meg Ryan playing Pam Courson giving Jim Morrison head in the sound booth."
"I feel weird being here. It’s like he has to keep me because we had sex."
"You really don’t know when to shut up. I think it’s about time you ate some soap, Estella Emerson."
"Addiction sneaks up on you. It’s a subtle thing."
"I’m not your kid. You don’t get to make decisions for me. I’m your sister."
"I dress up when the occasion calls for it. It’s August in Texas. I can either go fresh-faced or end up looking like I just left a funeral."
"You’re so rough around the edges, my little Latina. You should have been a man."
"It’s not a fucking fairytale, Stella. Life doesn’t magically start happening for anyone."
"You have to wait one minute past desperation, Reid. That’s when it happens. You’ll get a break."
"I’m tired of starving, tired of working my ass off, getting up only to get kicked down again."
"I might not know much, Reid, but I do know this: I’m yours."
"If you could only—for one second, see what I see. Just believe me."
"Having your heart splintered heightens that sense."
"I was still reaching for Reid at night, even months later."
"You’re getting into a rhythm, and that’s not such a good thing."
"Always ask for more of a good thing, Stella. Never know when you’ll have it again."
"It did something to me I can’t explain, Stella. Fate brought them together and one horrible act of prejudice ended them."
"I wish I could find that article. I owe David a visit."
"Enough to spend the rest of my life making sure others get to read stories like that."
"Because I’ll be damned if I let you forget that I’m waiting."
"Never," he said as he smiled down at me like I was shameless.
"You’ve got to step back so I can open the door."
"If it happens, it will happen naturally, and we’ll make our own story."
"Just don’t sit here and think woman thoughts, okay? You’re taking the right side tonight."
"Don’t throw those fucking signals at me, Stella, or you’re going to find yourself on the right side of my bed."
"Because where the girls go, the guys follow."
"You don’t get to tell me to stop! You don’t get to tell me shit!"
"I’ve missed you," he whispered, "so fucking much."
"I am damned," he whispered between us. "Look at me."
"I was in rehab, Stella. From the minute I signed that contract until ten a.m. this morning."
"You are better," I said in a breathless whisper. "You’ve always been better."
"You’ll be okay, you know that, right? Deep down you know exactly what you want, how you want this to play out."
"I don’t believe anyone anymore, Stella, but you."
"Happy New Year, Stella. I’m glad you’re happy. That’s all I came to see."
"Miss Emerson, I’d like to see you in my office,"
"You kept your promise, that’s all that matters," I said truthfully.
"I think about you every time I play. Every single day, I take you with me wherever I go."
"That first night you came over and washed my hair? Do you remember that?"
"You saved my life that night just by showing up."
"You saved every part of me. The parts I thought were empty, you filled up. The parts I thought were lost, you brought them back to me."
"I was so hell-bent on trying to get you out of my head, Stella. It meant nothing. Nothing to me."
"I never forgot you, Stella. Not you, not us, not any of it."
"I love you both," I cried as he towered over me. "And he was never supposed to come back for me."
"I love you," he whispered as more tears fell before he walked out on me.
"Living for a man is the quickest way to get lost."
"I loved my life with Nate Butler, that much I knew."
"Perfection is boring. It makes life boring, and love even more so."
"Because my rock ‘n’ roll fairytale had just begun."
"I used to think I was cursed for having fallen in love with two men. But, in hindsight, I realized what a gift it was."